What is the root of all evil?

Question

I know it's not really money.

Answer 1

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i know this one.

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Greed and jealousy. Whether it be greed for money or greed for power, that is the underlying factor. If it's not greed, then jealousy is a powerful enough thing to cause evil.

I know they say love of money but I could think of even one thing that disproves that. If a guy murders his girlfriend because she cheated on him, what does that have to do with money?

Answer 4

It never was money. The true phrase was the LOVE of money is the root of evil (not ALL evil, and not money itself!)

I'd say instead, it's a closed mind.  

Answer 5

Desire.

Trying to hold onto what we want and trying to always push away what we don't is the root of all our suffering thus the root of all evil.

Answer 6

I would think greed.

Answer 7

Greed!

Answer 8

For me the root of all evil is religion.God created the devil and is thus the cause of all evil.Millions of people have been killed for the sake of religion.

Answer 9

the root of evil lies within the inner realm every individual, the desire to expand ourselves and strive for perfection, control, money, power, so forth..

Answer 10

Greed in general is the root, what bad thing does not come from someones wanting something too much?

Answer 11

The root of all evil is actually not evil at all!!

Its self preservation....(the improvement of yourself whats yours and environment)

that is the root of "evil"....

its self preservation that leads to the thirst for power..

its the judeo/christian concept of "evil" that blurs the facts

as far as the natural world is concerned there is no evil

that's a human invention..

essentially to us... "evil" is what we don't like...

or what the majority doesen't like

hitler/statlin... didn't think they were evil at all...

so the root of evil is self preservation...

the root of evil is in mans desire

Answer 12

Umm...The Devil!

Answer 13

Pit bulls

Answer 14

I go with the old adage:

Money is the root to all evil.

And so say I.... it is my final answer.

Answer 15

Fear.  All things considered 'evil' or negative can be traced to fear.  Fear of the unknown, or unfamiliar.  Fear of rejection.  Fear of abandonment.  Fear of fear, and actually even Fear of 'God'.    Think on it, and you will see.

Walk in beauty and be NOT afraid ~ for with FAITH, not FEAR, all things are possible.~~

Answer 16

Linsey Lohan.

Answer 17

The failure to think through our notions, including ethical ones, to find a common truth. To reject the search for truth is to reject the goodness of the cosmos. To accept the statements of others as truth without the statements being examined by the mind's reasoning power is to live a lie. The thought that one has the procession of absolute truth without examination or the belief that there is no truth is fundamentally harmful to one's self. We exist as middle beings, we know to much to really be skeptics and we know too little to really be dogmatists. When we deny this truth or don't let this truth play out with others, meaning when we don't let them think for themselves, we commit evil. Morality ends were the gun begins, were force of some overrule the thinking of some or one.

Answer 18

selfish vanity

Answer 19

i think that money is the root of all evil, not just because the bible says so but because when i think about it, it really is. First, the people who have lots of money would do anything to keep getting it (anything!). Secondly, the people who have little get depressed and envious of the people who have a lot and start to pick at their lives, asking God why He/She even bothered to create them. thirdly, the people who don't have anything at all rob, kill, destroy and it all comes about because someone either has too much money or too little money. money, when coupled with humankind, is very dangerous to all.

Answer 20

According to the Bible, it's the **love of** money that's at the root of all evil.  The issue is not the money itself, but the attitudes that people have about it.