Faith in money brings destruction

To the editor:
I as a taxpayer was outraged when I found out Obamacare really meant I was going to be forced to get health insurance or be fined.
A mandate issue, given from the president.
Sir, our country was founded upon the rights of the people. On the currency and coin we use is stamped or printed “In God we trust.”
In whom do you trust? God or whoever you call upon? Gold, silver, gems, money?
The power of your creator instills value of life in tranquility.
The power of money gives us pleasures, luxuries in lust and want.
When we trust in the creator, we have the resources that are here before us: The water, the lands, the creatures great and small, the rejuvenating green life growing to sustain our lives.
When we have the lust of money, we have the resources stripped away subtly from under our feet, through our hands, and out of our mouths, because the love of money brings wanting more and more.
So we waste and lay waste to the land, water, creatures and vegetation, not caring how much life is lost due to our greed.
We enslave or kill those who stand in the way of our selfish lusts.
When we trust in God, we have an image separate from images created at our hand. At the hand of God, we have mercy, graciousness, compassion and kindness. At his feet is the world that was created.
We have an option to care for what is before us or continue to lay waste, destroying vital resources needed to sustain life.
The faith in money brings separation and destruction. The belief in a creator brings life and tranquility.
Chris Ames
Portland[[In-content Ad]]