The New Gospel

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">Usury [payment of interest] is most reasonably hated, because its gain comes from money itself and not from that for the sake of which money was invented.&nbsp; For money was brought into existence for the purpose of exchange, but interest increases the amount of the money itself (and this is the actual origin of the Greek word: offspring resembles parent, and interest is money born of money); consequently this form of the business of getting wealth is of all forms the most contrary to nature.</em></p>

<p><em style="line-height: 1.5; background-color: initial;">So you think money is the root of all evil? … Have you ever asked what is the root of money?&nbsp; Money is a tool of exchange which can’t exist unless there are goods produced by men able to produce them.&nbsp; Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value … So long as men live together on earth and need means to deal with one another — their only substitute, if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun.</em></p>