Liberalism, THE root of all kinds of evil.

We've all heard it, the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.  Well, what is the liberals solution to everything?
 How do you fix poor people?  Throw money at them.
How do you fix our economy?  Spend more money! (Exclamation mark for Joe Biden)
How do you fix our schools?  Spend more, we're obviously not spending enough!
How do you fix our society?  We have a great wealth disparity, once it's fixed, we're golden.


Why? Because liberals LOVE money.  They love it so much we're $16 trillion in debt with nearly $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, and we're devaluing our currency by printing billions more.  Well, that is unless we're electronically creating it because we've gotten so lazy.
Their solution is more money, more money, more money.
Sometimes things are vastly underfunded, but on the other hand, sometimes the problem is how the funding is used, not much there is.  It isn't true that the more you spend on something the higher the quality it is, unions are a good example of that.



























Satire complete.






Now, I've had many discussions with people about greed.  Many people think the Bible is saying money itself is THE root of evil.  They often quote 1 Timothy 6:10, which says the following:
"ῥίζα γὰρ πάντων τῶν κακῶν ἐστιν ἡ φιλαργυρία ἧς τινες ὀρεγόμενοι ἀπεπλανήθησαν ἀπὸ τῆς πίστεως καὶ ἑαυτοὺς περιέπειραν ὀδύναις πολλαῖς"

Just kidding, since less than 1% of the people I know can read that, it says,
"For the love of money is [a]* root of all kinds of evil: which some reaching after have been led astray from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows." 
*(It's split almost down the middle among the translations whether the word is 'a' or 'the'.  I believe 'a' fits better than 'the'.)

People quote this verse and say that money is evil, and use it to attack anything from 'greedy athletes' who demand more money, to 'greedy corporations' who charge an arm and a leg for everything with no thought to customer support, to 'greedy capitalism', the bane of America.

Before I go further, I'll say that the Hebrew language does NOT use articles the way we do.  They don't put 'the' or 'a' or 'an' before every written word.  It allows for interpretation, a little, which can lead to a few issues such as this one.

Second, context is important.  The teachings of Christianity are NOT easy, and they're often confusing to us, or at the bare minimum, counter-cultural. Things like not complaining, being slow to get angry, owing a debt of love to everyone, honoring your parents.  The purpose of struggles is to bring you closer to Christ-likeness, not simply to cause you strife.  This passage isn't simply talking about having money, it's talking about loving money more than you love God.  People read the 1st half of the verse, but not the second, which talks about that. Money isn't evil, but loving money can lead to evil actions and consequences  Same thing for power, sex, or knowledge.  

I really don't think liberalism is the root to all kinds of evil, but I do think liberalism is a result of godlessness.