> I would just say this: money is not necessarily an idol. A false idol is only that worshipped as an end in itself, that is not God. Money can be an idol; so can what money buys. Only when money is viewed as a means to serving the will of God - e.g. feeding a family and raising them in holiness - is it viewed licitly. >Usury is reproduction without copulation, and homosexuality is copulation without reproduction - as EMJ is fond of saying (and which I believe originated with Aristotle?). Aristotle may have commented on this as well, but EMJ usually cites Dante's *Divine Comedy*, in which Dante placed usurers and sodomites in the same circle of hell - because they are both guilty of unnatural and corrupting activity, one turning what is fertile (sexual union) into something sterile, and the other turning something sterile (money / gold) into something fertile. >A key revelation is that we all have either masterS or a master. There is no escaping this. Submit to The One master, or become the subject of the many, which together in their mutual self-exaltatuon will tear a man's identity into warring parts. Just as St. Augustine said in *The City of God*: >Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. @ARM @baphometworshipper