Clarification"Money is next to Godliness"Why?

Answer 1

I agree with u, we are becoming so money minded that we are willing to elevate money to the position of god. Money can buy u anything, even a place in heaven. Next thing money may be able to buy u God itself. Who wants cleanliness, 'money is next to godliness' and fast overtaking godliness.

Answer 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God
http://joshuakane.diaryland.com/older.html


Where do our ideas and values about so-called "cleanliness" come from, anyway? Western civilization has a long history of associating cleanliness with goodness and merit, best summed up by the old expression "cleanliness is next to Godliness." In ancient Greek plays, evil people and spirits—the Furies, for example—were often described as filthy. The Furies were dirty, aged, and female, exactly the opposite of how the playwright who described them saw himself; their filthiness, among other things, identified them as an outgroup—as alien, animal, inhuman. Over time, cleanliness became a measure with which the "haves" separated themselves from the "have-nots." Those who possessed the wealth and power required to have the leisure to remain indoors, inactive, scorned the peasants and travelers whose lifestyles involved getting their hands and bodies dirty. Throughout our history, we can see that cleanliness has been used as a standard of worth by those with power to ascribe social status—and thus, the "Godly," the self-proclaimed holy ones who stood above the rest of us in hierarchical society, proclaimed that their cleanliness, bought with the labor of the others who were forced to work for them, was a measure of their "Godliness" and superiority. To this day, we accept this traditional belief: that being "clean" according to social norms is desirable in itself.

Answer 3

Cleanliness is supposedly next to godliness; money is the root of all evil. Big difference there.

Answer 4

IT is cleanliness is next to Godliness. The love of money is the root of all evil.

Answer 5

It's cleanliness is next to Godliness. I think you're thinking of money is the root of all evil. That's not true either. The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Answer 6

Never heard that one. John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, gave a sermon in which he used the now-famous proverb "Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness."

There is another old proverb, not from Wesley, that says "Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent."

Answer 7

It is not money, it is cleanliness is next to Godliness. To be clean.

Answer 8

It's supposed to be "Cleanliness is next to Godliness" actually.

Answer 9

because you can buy a church with money. DUR! Why do you think Churches need tithes? To pay the priest, the cost of renovating, buying that jesus wafer, utilities, and etc. Churches have bills too you know!

Answer 10

Because God loves the Rich Man!!! He doesn't care much about the Poor because there are so many of Them.