Do You Think Money is the Anti-Christ and Exact Opposite, a Religion In its own right?

it's the love of money, avarice that's the problem.

religion is lost on the Vatican, they are the epitome of wealth worship.

vaults of wealth that could feed millions, but instead it sits there gathering dust & making the Vatican feel rich!

i think the scripture about you can't take it with you is wasted on them.

they should start taking the message seriously, as it's on their own door-step!

I would say the landlord, but not the “original”- should you choose to believe in divinity, and the original sin to start with –. Now, the argument be as it may that even the servants of God need earthly good to survive, both of us totally concur that they ARE “surviving” all too well for servants!

Religion have been, is, and shall be until the end of days- should you believe on this also- a tool that both controls the masses and accumulate wealth “subjected” to the requirement of the service, having said that, divinity and it’s work have expenses and they –being holly men are making sure that the faith is kept and that there is enough bread and wine for the “believers” to devour!

All religion puts other deeper things above money. Money sadly is the religion in America and other places do follow but not as fanatically as America. Which now is staging the principle and cause for its gradual downfall. Money is a fickle friend and cannot buy everything. Although we can say terrorists (Islamics in particular) are terrible they do demonstrate one thing, you cannot buy everything and everyone! America learns this as American citizens some who have never left America happily attack their home.

Building a skyscraper on 2 inch foundation is the building of a nation on money. You may reach the sky for a while but all will come tumbling down.

I think you might be right - we have 3 brand new churches in our small town (nothing wrong with the old ones, but the new ones have all mod cons!). The money they have spent on bricks and mortar is amazing. If even the churches think of money in this way - then money is the new religion - it rules the world.

A lot of "Christians" will make a clear distinction between money and the love of money. But money is volatile. It cries out for protection. It has the power to do great good, but there is always a fear that it won't be enough, that it will run out. That fear is what makes it evil. Money is a symbol of self-sufficiency, and it tries to protect itself first.

Money represents concentrated power, and power is the opposite of what Christ preached. "Seek the lowest place." "The greatest must serve the least." "Blessed are the poor." "What you do to the least of these, you do to me." "Do not worry about what you will eat, drink, or wear." "Go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor." And of course, "You cannot serve both God and mammon."

Christ's message is very impractical. It's as if he were saying planning and budgeting are evil. But the point is that the security that money provides can overwhelm the best intentions. We can lose sight of the goal (relieving suffering) in our careful stewardship of our resources. Christ tells us not to worry about that, just do what needs to be done now. Reckless charity is a crazy, scary attitude, but Christ seemed sure that the details would sort themselves out, and often they do.

Consider a typical charitable foundation. Some have money management problems, wasting too much on fund-raising and administration. But even the most careful ones strive to make sure that the organization endures. The value of the branding, of the name of the charity itself, seems to matter more than what it does. Contrast this with the efforts of local activists who band together to do good work, composing a flimsy organization with inadequate paperwork but delivering real relief, until it collapses, but is replaced by yet another organization, just as disorganized but just as timely. I'm not suggesting one is better or more effective than the other, just that charitable work can't be just about the money.

The Vatican is an unfortunate symbol, but not entirely its own fault. Its visible treasures represent centuries of accumulations from people who would rather flatter God than reach out to a neighbor in need. I don't really know what their bottom line is right now, what with the financial mismanagement of its bankers. But I'm not sure Christ would care about that. To him it's more important what YOU are doing, right now. In his opinion, I spend entirely too much time concerning myself with where I'll be in the next five or ten years, as if I expect to always be here.

The "Anti-Christ" is not some apocalyptic, supernatural being. The word only appears in the letters of John (NOT Revelation!), in the singular and the plural. An anti-christ is simply someone who denies that Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Savior. One might make the argument that people who seek their salvation and security in money are anti-christs, more or less.

Landlords? This comes from feudalism. As vassals of the king, the lords owned the land, which the serfs farmed to provide their revenue, in exchange for the lords' protection from enemies. At one time, the pope owned a substantial portion of Italy as the Papal States, and he taxed other lands at various times, but his proper jurisdiction has always been spiritual.

NO, the love of money is the root of all evil. There has to be a false prophet and an antichrist. The false prophet is to exhalt the antichrist and be there to totally support him.

Money could be an idol- something that a person loves more than God.

No! It is the use or misuse of money that is the anti-Christ. I agree that we do tend to chase money for it's own sake and that in itself taken to excess is ant-Christ

Nope. I think organised religion is the biggest threat to the Human race!

The anti-Christ is a government, not a man or any material object.

Yes sam c you're right and religion/church was invented to make money.