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Demeter

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Fri Feb 28, 2014, 07:44 PM Feb 2014

Weekend Economists Examine the Root of All Evil: February 28-March 2, 2014 [View all]

What could be more appropriate than thinking about money in the economy group?




King James Bible; 1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.


But usually not before they have pierced a whole lot of other people, first. The previous line is even more telling:

But those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful desires which plunge men into ruin and destruction. 1 Timothy 6: 9



Other useful biblical sayings:


Psalm 62:10
Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Proverbs 15:27
The greedy bring ruin to their households, but the one who hates bribes will live.

Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless.

Matthew 6:19
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.


It is a constant irony to me, at least, that the religions so obsessed with the evil of money should have followers legendary in their quest for wealth, earned or not. Perhaps the one follows the other?

It is a greater irony that when history is revised, most often it is the bankers who start the wars, not the average king or peasant.





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