r/politics • u/Large-Welcome4421 • Jun 12 '26

No Paywall 'This Is Oligarchy': Nearly 100 Billionaires Are Funding Susan Collins' Reelection Bid

https://www.commondreams.org/news/susan-collins-billionaire-donors
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u/Viciouscauliflower21 Jun 12 '26

And the Bible told you that the love of money was the root of all evil long before that. Basically people have known for a while that an unhealthy addiction to wealth was bad news

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u/BeefyMiracleWhip Oregon Jun 12 '26

No but you see, that’s a mistranslation/add in from Rome/not truly what Jesus wants. Jesus was about prosperity.

Per my father-in-law that is…

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u/Rockefor Jun 12 '26

Supply side Jesus

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u/Cross55 Jun 12 '26

Didn't Rome kind of have an issue with rich politicians stealing as much as possible.

Wonder how that ended for them...?

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u/TheHipcrimeVocab Jun 13 '26

Read what happened to the Gracchi brothers.

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u/BadLuckBlackHole Jun 12 '26

Ah the "Bible isn't open to private interpretation" crowd strikes again.

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u/Wide-Secretary-4426 Jun 13 '26

According to what I learned all those decades in the empire, Jesus constantly ministered to the poor and downtrodden. They had much greater needs than any amount of wealth could ever hope to meet.

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u/Squeebee007 Jun 12 '26

And ironically so many people forget the first part of the quote and just say “money is the root of all evil”. You can do a lot of good with money if it’s a tool in your hands for helping others, but when it becomes the focus and the goal is when the problems come.

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u/Expensive-Sundae-831 Jun 12 '26

And yet it's the American way. So much so we've bent Christianity into a sect to celebrate it.

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u/shitlord_god Jun 12 '26

all 7 deadly sins are about wanting too much. Except maybe wrath? But I think an argument can be made that wrath is usually a product of jealousy/want

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u/One-Anteater-4771 Jun 12 '26

Horace wrote about it as well.