Posted on 10/10/2021 4:21:20 AM PDT by Kaslin
It remains true to this day that “money is a root of all kinds of evil” (Paul, writing in 1 Timothy 6:10), which is why greed can corrupt the best of us if we are not careful. And that’s why it shouldn’t surprise us if Big Pharma, along with the abortion industry, has been influenced by greed. Why should they be exempt?
Think of a pastor who plants a church in his city because he loves the people of his community. He works a full-time job in addition to doing pastoral work. But he does so with joy, putting in 60-70 hours a week. That’s because he’s driven by love rather than by fame or fortune.
Fast forward 20 years when his church has grown to 15,000 people with a budget in the multiplied millions and a personal salary that dwarfs anything he made in the secular world. Unless he remains spiritually vigilant, it’s all too easy for him to become a hireling, tailoring his messages to please the richest in his flock, never wanting to offend or step on toes. Ministry has become a big business.
How much more, then, could secular organizations and companies and industries become corrupted by greed?
When it comes to the health care industry, my assumption is that most of the people involved as caregivers really do care. That’s why they chose this profession, and that’s why the nurse in the hospital is willing to empty the bed pan of an elderly patient. Or why the doctor is willing to work double shifts during a health crisis.
Of course, they want a paycheck like everyone else. And of course, a job can simply be a job.
But, as the risk of sounding naïve, I still assume that those who are touching the sick and hurting every day have some positive motivation within them, which is why they chose their current field.
That being said, it’s all the more likely that the higher you go up the food chain and the more money there is to be made, the more that greed can be a determining factor.
When it comes to the vaccines, do I believe that the doctors involved in developing these vaccines in such a short period of time were motivated by a strong desire to save lives? Again, forgive me for sounding naïve, but that is what I believe, at least for the most part.
But was there no other motivation for the company executives? Did the prospect of making multiplied billions of dollars have no effect on their thinking? And might the fear of losing these billions of dollars influence decisions they make or information they release or withhold?
Only God and the people involved know the answers to these questions. But it would be quite naïve to think that greed did not factor in at all.
A story on a PBS website states, “Billions more in profits are at stake for some vaccine makers as the U.S. moves toward dispensing COVID-19 booster shots to shore up Americans’ protection against the virus.
“How much the manufacturers stand to gain depends on how big the rollout proves to be.”
Are we to really think that the only thing driving the decision-making process is altruistic love? That everything is being done for strictly humanitarian purposes? And note those words “billions more” – in addition to all the billions made thus far.
Again, this is not to say that, “Big Pharma is evil.”
And it is certainly not to say, “Don’t get vaccinated,” or, “The vaccines are bad.”
It is simply to say, “Let’s be realistic. The love of money likely plays a factor here as well.”
It’s the same thing with the abortion industry, except that abortion in itself is evil, and therefore darker motives can drive some of those involved in terminating the lives of the unborn.
Again, this is not to say that there are not abortion providers who believe they are doing good, as self-deceived as they might be.
One pro-life colleague told me about an abortion doctor in his city who tithed on her income to her home church. This was her service to God.
Another pro-life colleague told me how shocked he was to hear that a church where he would be speaking had received an offering to help one of their congregants get an abortion.
And still another pro-life colleague told me that the notorious, late-term abortion doctor George Tiller, who was murdered by a fanatical pro-lifer, actually offered baptismal rites for the aborted children at the request of the parents. In his mind, he had done the merciful thing by killing a defective (or, unwanted) baby in the womb. (I was shown pictures to verify this.)
But with billions of dollars to be made through abortion, let’s not kid ourselves. While those in the pro-life movement are clearly not motivated by the love of money (in terms of their reasons for opposing abortion), you would have to be a complete fool to think that Planned Parenthood had no monetary interests at stake. Seriously?
As reported by the Heritage Foundation in 2018, “A recent report has revealed that Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, received over $1.5 billion in taxpayer funds from 2013 to 2015.” And note, that was just taxpayer money which, technically, is not supposed to go towards abortions. What about their direct profits from the millions of abortions they have performed?
As a Heritage Foundation article explained in April 2020, “As the coronavirus spreads, frontline healthcare providers and workers in other critical industries are facing a shortage of personal protective equipment. Many medical procedures, including bariatric, orthopedic, oncological, and cardiovascular surgeries, have been postponed for patients nationwide to allow hospitals to preserve critical resources and ensure adequate capacity to respond to the pandemic.
“But Planned Parenthood and others in the abortion industry don’t want to let anything, even a global pandemic, interfere with their ability to continue performing elective abortions.”
That’s because, for Planned Parenthood, abortion is a multi-billion dollar business. Here, bloodlust (where it exists in the industry) meets with greed. What could be more dangerous?
Looking back to Paul’s words in 1 Timothy, there is a warning for all of us: “Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” (1 Timothy 6:9-10)
Be assured that these warnings do not exempt Big Pharma, let alone Planned Parenthood. And where the shoe fits in our own lives, let us own it, uprooting the love of money before it blinds us and then destroys us.
Good article.
“money is a root of all kinds of evil” explains all what’s wrong with Establishment Medicine.
The story of the women with the issue of blood. She went to doctors for 20 years, spending all her money. In 2000 years, not much has changed, perpetual symptom treatment draining money out of people. Willie Sutton explained why that is so.
>>For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.<<
Indeed. It’s what’s in a man’s heart that becomes evil. Lust has many forms.
Omitting the critical word “love” corrupts the entire saying. Money and its use are indifferent. It is the covetousness that corrupts intent. It is the lust beyond reason that poisons people and what they do.
I’m not a preacher nor very religious. Oh, Lordy, is that an understatement. But, for too long “religious” folks have (mis)used Timothy’s words to bash those that achieve, those that accomplish things — and create lust and envy in the hearts that didn’t achieve so much. This is just petty.
True. Most people leave out the “love” part and that makes all the difference. Very surprised this writer used the bogus version of the quote. They should know better.
It’s actually ‘the love of money,’ not money per se.
The problem is being personally honest enough to recognize and admit it when looking into the mirror.
jesse waters did a nice expose on the Pelosi’s, 315 million in insider trading this year with no jail cell in site
I love money but one has to be very careful that that love never supercedes more important considerations. It can so easily blind us to them.
Well I am a preacher, ordained in 1979 and "very religious" since I was ten years old, and I say you are exactly right, except that I can't say that this is being done particularly by religious folks. It is just a bullying intimidation tactic used by anyone. 2 Peter 3:16
Money, in and of itself, neither corrupts nor elevates mankind.
The love of money, and the means by which it is accumulated, are both very corrupting, and the true root of the evil associated with money.
If one would avoid a conflict-of-interest, don’t have one.
Dang near everyone has one and it gets in the way of objective thinking.
True. Proverbs is filled with proverb after proverb how if you use wisdom and are diligent, that will lead to wealth and abundance. Also how sluggars and fools will have lack.
This is a great article.
As I was reading it, it reminded me of my careers in law enforcement. The higher up the promotional ladder, the less thought to enforcing the laws and caring about the line officers and the more thought that went into obtaining consulting contracts, etc.
Money is inanimate. I think it is accurate to say that “The LOVE of money is the root of all evil.
That surprises me. Usually freepers are negative of an op-ed Michael Brown. They seem to be mistake him of that certain Michael Brown.
It’s Jesse Watters with 2 ts. Just saying.
Unless I read opposing viewpoints or articles by people I don’t particularly care for, I will never expand my knowledge base or exercise my brain cells.
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