‘For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.’ The words of 1Timothy 6:10 are one of the most commonly misquoted passages of the Bible. The truncated ‘money is the root of all evil’ has been used for several centuries by all sorts of leftists to provide a Biblical fig-leaf for their atheistic canon of envy. As is so often the case, however, the Devil is in the detail. The crucial detail in this instance is that phrase ‘the love of’. The Bible does not condemn money per se, it warns us rather against the love of money. Jesus reserved one of his most ‘extreme’ actions for men in the business of money, along with those who sold sacrificial doves in the Temple. As we learn in John 2:15 ‘And when He had made a scourge of small cords, He drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables’. He did not merely criticise them; the ultimate Prince of Peace sat down and patiently braided a vicious whip. His anger was not some spur of the moment outburst; it was cool, calculated and premeditated. He probably took several hours making the weapon and then He took it and lashed the hypocrites and exploiters of the poor out of the House of God. The Parable of the Talents is usually interpreted as an instruction by Christ, to His disciples and then to us, to use our various gifts and talents (in the broader sense) for good. The use of a word which also referred to a valuable coin of the period, however, has been taken generally as meaning that money is one of the gifts, one of the things that we are fortunate to receive, which we should use for good. The servant who simply buried the money was condemned and punished, while those who put the coins their master entrusted to them to productive use were praised and rewarded: ‘Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.’ Matthew 25:23 The Bible contains in addition many passing references to gold, silver and money. It treats such symbols of material wealth simply as a neutral fact of life. This more than anything else confirms the fact that it is the love of money which is the problem, not money itself, and certainly not its good use. We are commanded not to worry about our lives and urged to consider how God provides for both sparrows and lilies without their needing to toil. We, by contrast, are told very early on in the Bible story that we are required to work for our daily bread.
While His disciples simply left their boats and nets to become fishers of men, our job in life is to rear families, to love our neighbours and to care for the sick, for the lame, for the victims of highway robbery and for prisoners. Self-evidently, we can only provide for our families and for our needy brethren if we have the earthly wherewithal to do so. Faith, prayer and the right spiritual and mental attitudes must all be cultivated, but we also need material wealth sufficient to sustain our own lives and to provide the security of those for whom we are responsible. Whatever good things we would do in this world, we need at the very least our health, which relies in part upon material things such as shelter, food, warmth and clean water. More often than not, we also need transport, tools, supplies and so on. Whether it’s feeding your own children, equipping a home-schooling operation, providing hot meals to an elderly neighbour or to homeless veterans, putting on training courses, setting up a charity shop for young families or a martial arts club for teenagers, building a community centre or a church - you cannot do any of these good things without money. Money - the Best of a Bad BunchWhat is money? It is nothing more or less than a symbol and representation of material wealth, a convenient means of exchange with a great deal more flexibility and utility than its predecessor barter and very much more decent than the two other alternatives often used by the desperate, the bad and by corrupt elites - theft and force. There are different sorts of money. The paper notes and coins which the Great Reset intends to phase out are invariably produced as part of the giant swindle that is centralised, fractional reserve banking but at least they allow – or allowed – us to buy, sell, donate, travel and live with a degree of privacy and day-to-day independence. Going up the scale, silver, once the basis of ordinary people’s routine financial transactions, now has many applications in modern medical and electrical technologies. Gold has rather more limited use, outside its unique standing as a long-term and universal store of value. Without gold you can still make plates of china and jewellery of other minerals and man-made substances. Being soft, it is woefully inferior to iron and steel for tools, weapons, ploughshares or other truly useful things. It isn’t even needed for filling teeth any more, although its high efficiency as a conductor of electricity does make it very useful in small electrical items such as mobile phones. Such industrial uses, however, only amount to about 10% of gold consumption. Buy Gold and SilverIf people didn’t see gold as beautiful and innately valuable, they would scarcely bother to pick it up and lug it home if they found a lump of it in the street. That said, I concur with the author of the next chapter as he considers ways of protecting your financial stability in a time of severe currency debasement: If you can afford to buy and squirrel away some gold and silver, it would be wise to do so. [If you want to see just how good this bit of advice was when I gave it back in 2020, check out the price of gold and silver back then, and now - NG December 2025]‘In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.’ In Genesis 3:19 we are told that we are both doomed and morally bound to work for our living. The idea that money can, of itself, generate money, is thus as un-Christian as the poverty, misery, wars and monopolistic destruction of private property that result from the banksters’ fiat money swindle. Fiat money – produced out of nothing as an interest-bearing debt by private banks - is fundamentally immoral. Gold – produced by work but innately idle save as a store of value - is basically amoral. Blockchain crypto-currencies, by contrast, being based on prior work and actually useful in their own right, are the nearest Mankind has yet come to producing what can be seen as moral currency. This is not to say that blockchain currencies are immune to being put to bad use - but at least they are not rotten on account of their very beginning. Christians tend to be traditionalist and conservative, but currency produced without the original sin of usury is an innovation we should welcome. There is also the intriguing possibility that blockchain currencies, produced by a vast decentralised network of independent computers, and being tailor-made for private transactions away from the prying eyes of big Government or even bigger Corporations, will find important future use not just in mainstream online commerce, but as the currency of Resistance. This could be true on a geopolitical level: Nations which wish to stay free of the ‘global-homo’ agenda of the Great Reset brigade and their toxic proposed One World digital dollar, could well find Bitcoin, Ether and similar currencies to be vital tools for retaining their independence. The ability to conduct international trade free from sanctions and tribute payments is going to become more and more important as the Great Reset plot thickens. For the same reasons, individuals and communities wishing to avoid oversight, control, taxes and denial of services censorship by the corporations and their State, look set to find crypto-currencies an absolutely essential weapon in the Long War against tyranny. The time will soon come when being paid in crypto for wiring an extension, plumbing in a new bathroom or supplying vegetables, will be as normal as being paid in cash used to be. Those with trades and skills which allow them to take such payments for at least some of their work will be very much more free and resilient than those who are compelled to work for a salary – and even freer than those who are ground down to relying on Universal Basic Income, the bread and circuses dole for the obedient serfs of the Great Reset dictatorship. Corporate-Feudal Power GrabGrasping the revolutionary nature of earning undocumented cash, barter goods or crypto payments from independent work and from trading on or beyond the edges of the System-controlled economy, is a critical prerequisite for surviving the Great Reset’s corporate-feudal power grab. This can be difficult and not just because of reluctance to grasp the full scale of their truly wicked plan. Europeans in general, and idealistic young people in particular, have long tended to look down on money and on those who earn and amass it, as something somehow ‘grubby’. The Priest and the Warrior have always been held in higher esteem than the Peasant. While this threefold division of many traditionalist societies has no Biblical origin, it is certainly recorded as far back as the time of Alfred the Great. The clearest exposition of the idea emerged in the highly cultured society of England a few decades before the Norman Conquest. Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, one of Anglo-Saxon England’s two most noted political theorists, wrote his Institutes of Polity, which included the following: ‘Every just throne that stands fully as it should stands on three pillars: First, those who pray, second those who labour and third, those who fight. Those who pray are the clergy, who must serve God and frequently plead for all the people day and night. Those who labour are the workers who must toil for that by which the entire community may live. Those who fight are the warriors who must protect the land by waging war with weapons. On these three pillars must each throne stand in a Christian polity. If any of them weaken, immediately the throne will tremble; and if any of them fracture, then the throne will rumble to pieces, and that will bring the people all to ruin.’ The workers are not some lowly foundation stone, to be trampled on by the others; they are one of three pillars, equal in both height and importance. It follows that the material goods produced by the Wulfstan’s peasants and by those of us who are their modern equivalents, are every bit as important for the life of the community as the prayers of priests or the swords of warriors. Honest labouring jobs and by logical and unavoidable extension the services that support and facilitate them, constitute one of the three pillars of a good, Christian society. Far from material goods - and the money needed to acquire many of them - being in some way lowly or ‘grubby’, they are a necessary and noble part of the social order.
Usury is an evil. The love of money is the root of all evil. But money and material wealth – provided they are used as the means to a sufficient life and to good ends and not hoarded in avarice - are things which ordinary mortals have not so much a right to hold, as a duty to earn. Advice to the YoungThis is a good time to impart some short but important pieces of advice to younger readers still needing and able to decide the course of their lives. Sitting around at the expense of others is not acceptable in any rightly ordered society and it most definitely is not the way of our people. The Great Reset proposal to hand out Universal Benefit payments, so that a mass of serfs can buy things produced by robots, does not only go against God’s prescription that we must work to live. It is also precisely the ‘mess of pottage’ with which the elite seek to bribe us all into surrendering to them our birth right of freedom and human dignity. Do not make that fatal trade! Reject their poisoned hand-outs and cling to the right to work and to earn your daily bread through your own efforts. This is not to recommend a ‘career’. We will explore the dangers of being sucked into serving and relying on a System which hates you and our kind at greater length in the final book of the Deus Vult trilogy. Suffice it for now to say that your aim should be to learn a practical trade, to acquire skills, qualifications and tools which allow you to work for yourself. This will help insulate you from intimidation and persecution of the ‘cancel culture’ of the Great Resetters’ leftist Useful Idiots. And it will maximise the amount you can earn while minimising the tribute you are forced to pay to the liberal State. Since you’ve read this far, I guess you agree that this is good advice. The thing is, though, people tend not to value things they get for free, so this seems like a good place to ask you to support my work and show your appreciation by subscribing. Many thanks for joining a very special group of people!...Keep reading with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Nick Griffin Beyond the Pale to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. A subscription gets you:
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