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Article: Avarice and greed.
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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Introduction
Although we are surrounded by it and it encroaches more and more each day into our society and economy, we hear precious few pronouncements against the evil of avarice. It is so much touted as good for the individual and the world economy that Christians tend to mute their opposition to it. This article breaks the silence and--rather than concur with those who extol avarice as good for everyone in the world--this article shows that the Bible and its first readers and the earliest disciples of Jesus considered it a sin, not a virtue. They having written at a time before the division into modern-day denominations, their statements are applicable to ...
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