It Christian communities it has long been debated what Jesus meant when he said a camel could pass through an eye of a needle more easily than a rich person can get into heaven. I accept that all ‘holy’ writ has come down from the minds of people but it interests me to wonder what concerns richness in this context has for a species given over to the making of money?
Firstly I wonder why this was said if rich people can be good; most charities are started and often endowed by the rich, they do a lot of charitable work, community work and their taxes fund government work. Everyone needs money why forbid rich people the right to go to heaven? Yes the poor ‘suffer’ more than the rich but that isn’t a good reason to keep them out of heaven – after all where is forgiveness in all this?
My conclusion is that people were around when money was first minted and they saw it not as progress but as a deleterious system that bound everyone into its machinery. They could see that not everyone in the world could be rich, that there comes a time of balance when to be rich, someone else must become relatively poorer. The reason we miss this is because we have been busy inflating the system for ten thousand years. It is in fact a pyramid system.
I also think they realised that since everyone is in the system the rich do not make money, money is made for them by everyone else, they just direct it to their personal accounts. That being so there is a direct link to the four million children who die needlessly every year and the rich.
There is no bloodless money.