• Chris Remington@beehaw.org
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    15 hours ago

    …money isn’t the root of all evil…

    That’s because it isn’t…to explain, many people misquote a verse from the biblical texts.

    1 Timothy 6:10: “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.”

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      11 hours ago

      ah, interesting! I might have heard that this was misquoted before (and forgot), but I didn’t know it was from the bible.

      “… of all kinds of evil” is interesting too. To me this implies that loving money isn’t necessarily always a problem, if it means say being frugal to save money/food to survive the winter or something, or saving for your children’s future.