Tuesday, December 15, 2009
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Love of Money
Love of Money
Money gives us the ability to obtain the things or situations we desire. With money we can buy the security, power, recognition, stimulus, or whatever else we think we need in order to find fulfillment.
Money itself is not evil, but the immoderate love of it is, or an over eager desire after it, or an excessive delight in it, is the cause of much evil, both of sin and punishment.
For the love of money is the root of all evil – Of course there are all kinds of evils and some are beside the love of money, for example: the evils growing out of ambition, and intemperance, and debasing lusts, and of the hatred of God and of goodness.
Our love of money not only causes us to make decisions that are not in our own best interests, it also leads to usury—the charging of interest on a loan.
Society is caught in a vicious circle. Our belief that material well-being is the path to inner well-being underlies our love of money. Our love of money leads us to want to make more money out of the money we have, and so to the charging of interest on loans. The charging of interest leads to the need for continual economic growth, and to the need to produce and sell more and more superfluous products. And to keep us buying all these products we have to be kept believing that material well-being is the path to inner-well-being.Thus do we remain locked in to a set of out-dated assumptions. This is the root of our collective cultural hypnosis.
To solve the many problems facing us we have to tend the root cause—our addiction to the world of things and the love of money to which it leads. This is the virus in our mind, the root cause of our malignant tendencies.
Money gives us the ability to obtain the things or situations we desire. With money we can buy the security, power, recognition, stimulus, or whatever else we think we need in order to find fulfillment.
Money itself is not evil, but the immoderate love of it is, or an over eager desire after it, or an excessive delight in it, is the cause of much evil, both of sin and punishment.
For the love of money is the root of all evil – Of course there are all kinds of evils and some are beside the love of money, for example: the evils growing out of ambition, and intemperance, and debasing lusts, and of the hatred of God and of goodness.
Our love of money not only causes us to make decisions that are not in our own best interests, it also leads to usury—the charging of interest on a loan.
Society is caught in a vicious circle. Our belief that material well-being is the path to inner well-being underlies our love of money. Our love of money leads us to want to make more money out of the money we have, and so to the charging of interest on loans. The charging of interest leads to the need for continual economic growth, and to the need to produce and sell more and more superfluous products. And to keep us buying all these products we have to be kept believing that material well-being is the path to inner-well-being.Thus do we remain locked in to a set of out-dated assumptions. This is the root of our collective cultural hypnosis.
To solve the many problems facing us we have to tend the root cause—our addiction to the world of things and the love of money to which it leads. This is the virus in our mind, the root cause of our malignant tendencies.
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