The Root of All Evil...

... according to Scripture, anyway, is the love of money. That's the verse that came to my head as I was reading this article in the Washington Post. I think it's Thomas Aquinas who talks about sin coming from loving other things more than God. It's not that loving money, or making money, is a bad thing -- it's that when it is valued so highly that you don't care about people having a place to live, that you get situations like this one.