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Chimbley, Shirley? And no, I wouldn't say it, unless exaggeratedly as a joke.

I agree! Maybe we should have a separate theological discussion thread, although some of this might broaden the horizons of others with narrow views about religion.

I agree totally. But it is a biblical quotation, and if one is writing or talking about something that Jesus is supposed to have said, there is a world of difference between "Money is the root of all evil" and "The Love of Money is the root of all evil". In other words,If anybody says "It says...

But I think the most important thing, as was already pointed out, is that it is the LOVE of money - not money itself.

There's a word for this sort of thing, which my wife and i cane across years ago: Catachresis (from Greek κατάχρησις, "abuse"), originally meaning a semantic misuse or error—e.g., using "militate" for "mitigate", "chronic" for "severe", "anachronism" for "anomaly", "alibi" for "excuse", etc.—is...

It might depend on what translation you use...........