📚 4 Books mentioned in "CLASSIC: Is Money a Religion? | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW" of Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

You know we can uh we can take it to the Bible if you want to I've got a verse here from the King James version uh from Luke you want to go this way... This is Luke 16 13 It says no servant can serve two masters Or either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to 1 and despise the other ye cannot serve God and Mammon

The host references the Bible, specifically the King James Version and a verse from Luke, to discuss the concept of serving God vs. Mammon (wealth).

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I actually believe Jesus as a prophet is quoted more in the Quran than he is in the Christian Bible fun facts

The host mentions the Quran in comparison to the Christian Bible regarding mentions of Jesus.

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or salt was also used uh Mark kolanski has a great book called salt where he created the least creative thing about the book is the name but it is but it fits It looks at the history of salt and how Roman soldiers were paid in Seoul which is where we get the phrase cough it up to pay for something um or worth his salt

The host mentions a book about the history of salt by Mark Kurlansky, noting its title and some historical facts from it.

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so we'll return to Philip goodchild here for another quotation where European philosophers have often sought some decisive term that gives shape to the ways we think and act such as being truth difference the sublime the void time or even God it seems to me that money actually plays the decisive role in our society for money is at once an object that can be handled an institution which is the basis of all our cooperation and a structure of thinking We unwittingly have made a Theology of money

The host quotes Philip Goodchild, mentioning his name and the concept 'a Theology of money', which is the title of his relevant book, to support the idea that money functions like a religion.

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