Greed: The Root of All Evil

Yesterday my inbox was on fire. Everytime I checked my mail there was another phantom post trying to entice me into giving somebody my personal banking information. Of course you're thinking, everyone knows those are scams...right? Yeah, they know, they have to know. When you go to most banks now, signs are posting warning you about email scams that say someone has signed up to your bank account, your paypal, your ebay, or the biggie some sob story about a guy in Nigeria that needs to transport funds and will give you a cut.

If you know that its a scam why go for it? Greed. Yep, greed. Even though I knew better, I thought, years ago I might have been stupid enough to say, "I know I don't have a BankPlus account but obvously an account is in my name, which means I have money that I don't know about so I should send this stuff back. I mean I need the money right?" I even know people that were into the Nigerian scam. In the back of their mind, they knew it sounded fishy but still it was money and you could always use money. What if this was the one request that was true?

It's like those chain letter forwards that people send talking about Bill Gate's tracking device that will notify you so you can get paid for forwarding the message. I got one the other day and the note said, "I think this one might actually work"

We're holding out hope for money because we think that if we get just a tiney morsel of it, it will make us better. It really won't. If half of these things were true and people we're getting money, half of the world's charities, soup kitchens and poverty stricken would not see any of our new monetary blessings. Instead we would rush to make big business even bigger. Hello Gap Chanel and your local Hummer dealer!

I am so sick and tired of people misinterpreting the bible. Newsflash: Money is not the root of all evil. It's the love of money that is doing us in and the love of money that will destroy us all. It's really a shame.