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The "love of money" is also dealt with in the article:

"Or did you say it's the love of money that's the root of all evil? To love a thing is to know and love its nature. To love money is to know and love the fact that money is the creation of the best power within you, and your passkey to trade your effort for the effort of the best among men. It's the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money--and he has good reason to hate it. The lovers of money are willing to work for it. They know they are able to deserve it."

To see men perform the most immoral of acts for money, it becomes easy to believe money to be a wretched thing.

Thus, it's not a far leap to consider the love (or insane lust) of money as evil.

Hence, the quote from the bible is there to protect men from performing acts of evil in the search for or in the name of money.




"No True Scotsman" fallacy, "the love of money" has a standard meaning quite apart from "the love of traditional capitalist values".


"[T]he love of traditional capitalist values"! The meaning of money, which she explained, is the same quite apart from your "traditional capitalist values" -- didn't want to let that rhetorical slap zip by unchallenged.

If you can understand the meaning of money and claim that love of money, which embodies that meaning, is the root of all evil, fine. But then, you might as well say that love of ANYTHING that's good is the root of all evil. In the same way that this maxim exaggerates its claim, I can plausibly argue that love of sex with women is the root of all evil, because men commit most evil and, one way or another, most of it has its roots in pursuing women.


I pretty sure Paul would agree that love of sex with women is a root of much evil (not to mention love of sex with men which is even worse!).


Note that the quote isn't "the love of money is evil", but that it is "the root of all evil". A small but important distinction.




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