Deluded Sinner

In terms of religion this kind of behaviour is considered, either explicitly or implcilty, to be sinful. In Christianity the accumulation of more wealth that necessary is explicitly stated to be a sin. Other religions say much the same. A person who goes on endlessly accumulating and hoarding wealth and property, who has become in some way or other infatuated and obsessed by it, is regards as deluded and a sinner, He is not as much of a sinner as someone who kills, but he is a sinner nevertheless. This then is how we ought to see it. We ought not to live just in order to go on endlessly accumulating wealth and property. We ought to regard it as simply a means to an end. We ought to acquire wealth simply to provide for our basic wants, in order that we, then, go in search of something else, something better than wealth. And that something is what we shall discuss later on.