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Money and Happiness: I have never accepted that money was the root of all evil. Yet the way of peace has to face...

I have never accepted that money was the root of all evil. Yet the way of peace has to face the current dominance of greed. Some liberal Christian theologians have tried to soften Christ’s apparently blanket condemnation of riches by saying that what he really meant was that love of money is at the root of all evil. The semantic difference is that in the first statement money causes evil while in the second it is only associated with it. The issue of money and spirituality has changed since Saint Francis of Assisi formed a band of impoverished brothers. Saint Francis took literally a Biblical passage in which Christ says to his disciples, “You have received the Gospel without payment, give it to others as freely.” Begging monks were a tradition that was already centuries old in India and China. The basic problem with money seems obvious: It pulls the mind toward worldly th...

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