The Root Of Evil: Is It A Clutch Of Cultural Causes? Or "The Love Of Money?"

St. Paul says "the love of money is the root of all evil."

Americans have so normalized greed that that they no longer recognize it as a Deadly Sin.
And not only a Deadly Sin, but the signal sin of our time.

"The Seven Deadly Sins"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-seven-deadly-sins-create-your-own.html

Pope Francis' candid criticism of contemporary Golden Calf worship is barely heard by American moralists long habituated to obsessing over sexual morality because they cannot bring themselves to contemplate "Christian" culture's deadly acquisitiveness.

"Pope Francis Links"
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html

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"Gun Cartoons and Gun Violence Bibliography"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/07/gun-cartoons-and-gun-violence.html

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Despite conservative alarmism, the U.S. murder rate has dropped precipitously since the mid-nineties 

and is now down by over half.

"U.S. Murder Rate On Track To Be Lowest In A Hundred Year"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-us-murder-rate-is-on-track-to-be.html

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In the conservative world view, "good news "does nothing to mitigate apocalyptic assumptions.

No matter what... existential anxiety is uppermost and the sky is always falling.

"Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/conservatives-scare-more-easily-than.html