You're most definitely not just being negative, Don. ;-) You're taking note of a completely bankrupt and invalid philosophy whose self-serving mendacity should be plain for anyone to see if they gave it a modicum of real thought.

Funny how few people nowadays seem to remember that Christ (reputedly) threw the moneylenders out of the temple...and even fewer seem to ask themselves why.

Because it was the only way to restore the temple to its proper purposes, that's why. The moneylenders have been allowed into our secular "temples", metaphorically speaking...that is, they have been allowed to take control of our society at the highest levels, and that spells disaster for society in general...huge profits for a few greedy men at the expense of the rest of humanity.