Mark, Chapters 11-End

I was familiar with the story of Jesus and the temple, and I find it diverting to see that Jesus' ideas on money are still seen today. For example, on a long plane ride I borrowed my father's magazine, which was the Economist. While flipping through it, I saw on article on Sarkozy, France's president, and the article talked about him breaking taboos and tradition or France's presidency. Amongst them was the money taboo, where most presidents hid their wealth because wealth implied underhandedness and criminality, and Sarkoy broke this taboo by openly displaying hs wealth. The temple troy brought this to mind becuse I saw how long lasting and how strong the teachings of Jesus are. In Colombia for example, vast wealth is also (generally) lookeddown upon because it also implies criminal activity and a hrse often muttered when people display that sort of thing is "Sera narco?". However, that is in cases of "suspicious" wealth and such, like getting rich very quickly, and the riteria is different in our school, for example, as many people are wealthy without suspicion of illegal activity. The real point I'm getting to is that with the influences of the Bible wealth is a tricky thing and your actions in relation to wealth vastly color others' opinions of you. But I'm not really adept at analyzing the way people erceive wealth because it's much more complicated than the surface appearance and I'd probably need degrees in Psychology and Sociology to really render an adequate thesis, so let's leave this as an educated guess.