Saying that wealth is spiritually inconsequential at best or destructive at worst is a far cry from attacking the wealthy as the source of all societal ills or demanding some kind of redistributive justice to ensure material prosperity for all.
A pat and convenient answer. As a matter of fact, the sum of Jesus' statements (and the verse from His mother Mary) comes pretty close to "attacking the wealthy as the source of all societal ills", as does St.Paul ("The love of money is the source of all evils"), and clearly states that the salvation of any rich man is nothing short of a miracle from God.
If the salvation of a rich man is nothing short of a miracle, then we have no reason to envy the rich at all. In fact, we should pity them. This is the exact opposite of the politics of envy.
Furthermore, "the love of money" is not the same thing as wealthy people. It is greed - equally present in those who clamor for wealth as in those who attain it - which causes evils, not the relative success on the part of some in the exercise thereof.
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Saying that wealth is spiritually inconsequential at best or destructive at worst is a far cry from attacking the wealthy as the source of all societal ills or demanding some kind of redistributive justice to ensure material prosperity for all.
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Furthermore, "the love of money" is not the same thing as wealthy people. It is greed - equally present in those who clamor for wealth as in those who attain it - which causes evils, not the relative success on the part of some in the exercise thereof.
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