The almighty dollar - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Op-ed - News

The almighty dollar - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Op-ed - News: "Nobody could have been more wrong than St. Paul (or his posthumously self-appointed amanuensis) when he claimed in the New Testament that ''the love of money is the root of all evil.' On the contrary, most of the evils I can think of are associated with indifference to money. Imagine if Hitler or Stalin or Pol Pot had cared a lot more about making a buck. Would the bodies be piled quite so high if they had behaved more like John D. Rockefeller or Bill Gates? Osama bin Laden doesn't care nearly enough about money to suit my taste. If he did, he'd chose another line of work. ''A man is seldom so innocently employed,' said Samuel Johnson, ''as when he is getting money.'"