Money is the root of all evil?. Right? Wrong! 'Money is the root of all good' I say?

Answer 1

Yea well I don't care about money. But its what you do with it that counts. Money helps you do what you want, what you want is what makes it good or bad, happy, or sad. Right or right, its what people believe to be a way to express yourself

Answer 2

You're wrong on that one. The Bible never said "money is the root of all evil." It said that GREED is the root of all evil, which means that it doesn't even need to have anything to do with money. It has something to do with someone else's wife, husband, car, truck, children, house, clothes, shoes. People get killed over those, not only money.

Answer 3

Money is the root of all evil if you let it control you by making it your number one priority and everyone and everything after that.Because once you have enough money were you can buy and do anything.The people you supposedly care about do not want to be with you and a lot of time they may stick around because they feel as if you should be giving them money to try to make up for not been there for them while you were busy making money your priority.I say this from experience I have plenty of money plenty of material things.But I lost what mattered the most and the thing that money can never buy you.

Answer 4

Yeah you need money to live, so for that it's good.
But if you have too much money, and you are greedy for it, then it becomes evil. In that sense, the saying is true, because if all your evil deeds originate from the want of more money, then it is the 'root'.

Answer 5

While Paul says 'the love of money is the root of all evil,' there's more to it than that. What is the love of money? Many of your respondents have defined it as greed, but there's much more to it than that. Money allows you to pretend to be better than others. How many people do you know who feel superior to lower income brackets. Who treat people in the McDonalds as second-class citizens (assuming they are citizens at all, of course) because they're poor. Pride is at the back of every sort of evil; relative pride as opposed to absolute. You can be proud of running a mile in 00:04:10; it is an absolute pride that you did something difficult well. You didn't win any world records, you and maybe you came in last at the Olympics, but you can still have pride in it which is perfectly fine.

Relative pride means that the only way you can have pride in your run is if you won; you have to beat others to make it worthwhile. That is why love of money is the root of evil; it's not a desire for money to buy a nice house or car, but a lust for money to have a better house and a better car than your peers. And the worst part is that it never ends, but takes over every section of life. What happens when a shopkeeper gets a knighthood and suddenly finds himself moving in a better set? He disdains his old colleagues and friends, and struggles to show himself 'as good as' his new social peers. His children grow up among their 'betters,' and suffer two difficulties--never being thought quite as good as their 'betters,' and never quite forgiving their parents for being from a lower social class. It's no surprise that all of the most vicious revolutionaries, from Lenin to Hilter to Mao to bin Laden, come from upper middle class families, the very point where money blurs the line between aristocrat and self-made men. They all reached the point where enough wasn't enough, they needed more, and better, and Mao especially got exactly that.

The language of the Bible can be taken too literally, and very profound ideas can be lost if only the simplest explanation is allowed. Love of money is a much larger thing than mere greed.

As to your second point, I agree that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with money. Capital builds everything, and letting people decide how to spend their own is the best way to provide for everybody. Still Adam Smith wouldn't agree that capital is the root of all good. The Wealth of Nations was an (very very long) afterword to Theory of Moral Sentiments, and at no time did he endorse either greed or what I've called relative pride. Self-interest is not the same thing as selfishness, and profit is not a side-effect of greed.

Answer 6

If money is the root of anything, I'd say money grows on trees.

Answer 7

The unending desire for money is the root of all evil. The money itself is just paper.

Answer 8

you should tell that to the people in darfur, or the people of sierra Leon who's diamonds financed a long and bloody civil war. I am embarrassed for you having made this comment. money is like any other tool in life, it can be used for good and evil, but alot of people have died or murdered trying to get more money.

Answer 9

greed is the root of all evil

Answer 10

Money is *NOT* the root of all evil.

The love of money in exclusion to all else could be, however.