“Money is the root of all evil.”
if that is the case, surely the dollar and the vastly successful United States economic system is evil beyond compare. Is that what you believe? Do you use dollars?
No, ‘the love of money is the root of all evil’...not the money itself. Do you own the money, or does the money motivate you?
OK, so responding to my own comment:
“is evil” should be “are evil”
...and...
The old “money is the root of all evil” line seems demonstrably flawed to me. Is it not flawed human nature that is the true “root of all evil”? I think the “money is the root of al evil” saw is the exact equivalent of “guns kill people, people don’t kill people”. It places the blame in the wrong place.