"Money Is The Root Of All Evil".....

[haele]

18. Just as the original sin was not "Sex", but the Fear of being exposed in public...

It's the love of money - both as the infection of greed in a society and the destructive symptoms of greed through abuse of the power structure or in an increasing economic segregation based on "an ownership society" where basically the ability to purchase one's own status is considered of greater societal worth than any actual ability the person might bring to society.

There is a direct link between the love of money and the original sin. People desire the accumulation of money to be able to build and strengthen the illusions around them to hide that within them from everyone else around them. Fearful people will throw money around to hide how small and weak they really are. They buy their strength and power. And people who are generally comfortable enough with what they have will let themselves be bought and sold because 1) they don't understand the fear of being seen small or weak and 2) a little more comfort and security of access to resources is always nice.

(According to the original sin story, after eating of the fruit of Knowledge of Good and Evil, the first thing Adam did was put a fig leaf on "his weakness" and tell Eve to cover up the parts of her body that "made him weak" - then he hid from his Creator in shame...)

Haele