I don't think the quote is meant to be anti-money. I think a true "love of money" would be recognizes it for what it is: a vehicle. The root of all evil is an

I don't think the quote is meant to be anti-money. I think a true "love of money" would be recognizes it for what it is: a vehicle. The root of all evil is an obsessive/addictive love of money. Any addiction is classically considered evil, but love of money is the most dangerous because it is the most formless and abstract. Workaholism is pretty abstract, but at least you need to appear to be doing something. In our times as in all others, it is possible to chase money by doing nothing of value at all. Traditionally speaking (i.e. in the historical context of the Bible a la Dante et al) the only way for something to be bad is to take something good and twist it out of it's shape, or pull it from it's right place.