Podhoretz Person
Oh, my burning, aching derriere, I can’t believe this is coming from the pen (typewriter, keyboard, whatever) of one of the biggies of Neoconservative thought:
Unlike the New Testament, which consistently favors the poor over the rich and sees money as the root of all evil
(As quoted by Steve Sailer.) Aaah! Aaah! Aaaaaaggghhh! The pain! It burns! No, no no nononononooooo… Mr. Podhoretz, it is not money that is the root of all evil, it is the love of money that is the root of all evil. Here’s the complete quote from fricking Timothy 6:10:
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Money is just a thing, like other things, and it’s okay to have riches as long as (according to Christian and Jewish belief) you don’t place your wealth before (in ascending order) your duty to care for your family, then to care for those less fortunate than you who are not in your immediate family, and then to worship and thank God for blessing you with said riches. This kind of destroys his argument that Jews shouldn’t be into social justice because Jews never cared about the poor only the amassing of wealth unlike Christians who were all about giving everything away to the poor or whatever the hell he meant and it’s really funny to see a Jew drag out stereotypes of money-grubbing Jews isn’t it? Is there an editor left in the land that can make sure writers quote accurately, or are they all so afraid of the Bible that if you show them one they react like vampires to the cross, and thus couldn’t tell you what was in one if it wasn’t already quoted in The New York Review of Books or something?
One could argue that, if the Bowdlerized version were correct, evil didn’t exist while people were still trading by barter—before the advent of currency.
Which would throw a monkey wrench into the Cain-vs.-Abel story.
Posted by McGehee on 10/26 at 09:48 PM
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