68-433: Unmentionable! is the sixth in a series of collections of short stories by Australian author Paul Jennings . It was first released in 1991. A man hangs out a different ice sculpture at the front of his fish shop every month. But when he makes a maiden sculpture that is a copy of his cousin, one of his friends wants to keep that one. The boy, who is the protagonist , ends up holding the sculpture and kissing it. As his flesh
136-402: A communal society ). Greed is also personified by the fox in early allegoric literature of many lands. Greed (as a cultural quality) was often imputed as a racial pejorative by the ancient Greeks and Romans; as such it was used against Egyptians, Punics, or other Oriental peoples; and generally to any enemies or people whose customs were considered strange. By the late Middle Ages the insult
204-608: A speech pathologist then lecturer in special education at the Burwood State College and later, in 1979, Senior Lecturer in Language and Literature at Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education (both now part of Deakin University ). In 1985, Jennings's first book of short stories, Unreal! , was published, during which he worked as a teacher, lecturer and speech therapist. He began writing for children when his son, aged 11,
272-429: A water-holding frog , but they get trapped in the desert without water. Knowing that neither of them can go on any further, the boy sits down on his burnt bottom and tears rush from his eyes as he feels the unbearable pain. His tears fall onto the ground, causing a ton of frogs to appear on the ground and the grandfather's wish is granted. A boy invents a lie detector that works exactly as intended. His friend uses it on
340-439: A God, and be his serf forever. To wear fine cloaks, golden chains, rings, to wipe his mouth, to be deemed and taken for a worthy, pious man .... Usury is a great huge monster, like a werewolf, who lays waste all, more than any Cacus , Gerion or Antus. And yet decks himself out, and would be thought pious, so that people may not see where the oxen have gone, that he drags backward into his den. Michel de Montaigne thought that 'it
408-458: A bird flying and the boy flies up with it. After, the bully tries on the hat but it sees a pile of faeces and the bully ends up going towards it. Was later adapted as an episode of Round the Twist . A boy always gets beaten by his older brother, especially at running and at urinating as high as possible. However, he spends a week training, making him a lot better. Finally, the boy beats his brother at
476-590: A bucket full of what she thought was fertilizer, accidentally destroys the magnolia tree due to it being blackberry killer instead. Feeling guilty, she now works as a busker to pay up for a new one, costing one thousand dollars . Back in the present, a young man (called Young Ponytail) gives her an enchanted mouth organ that, whenever a song is played on it, causes whoever hears it to act to the lyrics and tells her to "use her own tunes, not other peoples". He tells her he will be back for it, tomorrow at noon, he then leaves. A tourist bus heading for Sydney pulls up to see
544-471: A case where the lord of a state of ten thousand chariots is murdered, it must be by a family with a thousand chariots. In a case where the lord of a state of a thousand chariots is murdered, it must be by a family with a hundred chariots. One thousand out of ten thousand, or one hundred out of a thousand, cannot be considered to not be a lot. But if righteousness is put behind and profit is put ahead, one will not be satisfied without grasping [from others]." In
612-610: A fixed part of their folklore. In the Sanskrit Dharmashastras the "root of all immorality is lobha (greed).", as stated in the Laws of Manu (7:49) . In early China, both the Shai jan jing and the Zuo zhuan texts count the greedy Taotie among the malevolent Four Perils besetting gods and men. North American Indian tales often cast bears as proponents of greed (considered a major threat in
680-400: A folly so common to old men, and the most ridiculous of all human follies. Baruch Spinoza thought that the masses were concerned with money-making more than any other activity, since, he believed, it seemed to them like spending money was prerequisite for enjoying any goods and services. Yet he did not consider this preoccupation to be necessarily a form of greed, and felt that the ethics of
748-400: A moment's relaxation; and what is yet stranger, the less natural and pressing his wants, the more headstrong are his passions, and, still worse, the more he has it in his power to gratify them; so that after a long course of prosperity, after having swallowed up treasures and ruined multitudes, the hero ends up by cutting every throat till he finds himself, at last, sole master of the world. Such
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#1733085347845816-469: A negative connotation. Alternately, the purpose could be defense or counteractive response to such obstructions being threatened by others. Modern economic thought frequently distinguishes greed from self-interest , even in its earliest works, and spends considerable effort distinguishing the line between the two. By the mid-19th century – affected by the phenomenological ideas of Hegel – economic and political thinkers began to define greed inherent to
884-468: A personality trait that can be measured. With measures like these, greed has been found to be related to financial behavior (both positive in earning and negative in borrowing/saving less), to unethical behavior, and to negatively relate to well-being. Animal examples of greed in literary observations are frequently the attribution of human motivations to other species. The dog-in-the-manger , or piggish behaviors are typical examples. Characterizations of
952-460: A philosophy of avarice coloured with utilitarianism. Weber also says that, according to Protestant ethic , "Wealth is thus bad ethically only in so far as it is a temptation to idleness and sinful enjoyment of life, and its acquisition is bad only when it is with the purpose of later living merrily and without care." As a secular psychological concept, greed is an inordinate desire to acquire or possess more than one needs. The degree of inordinance
1020-516: A starving man, comes to Plutus, Faust in disguise, to recite a cautionary tale about avariciously living beyond your means: Starveling. Away from me, ye odious crew! Welcome, I know, I never am to you. When hearth and home were women's zone, As Avaritia I was known. Then did our household thrive throughout, For much came in and naught went out! Zealous
1088-671: A suburb of Melbourne , and then Caulfield Grammar School . He graduated with a Bachelor of Education Studies from Frankston Teachers' College and taught at Frankston State School, Kangaroo Flat State School, the Turana Youth Training Centre and the Royal Children's Hospital State School in Mount Eliza . He then went to the Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences (now part of Monash). After graduating, he worked as
1156-1074: Is a great-grandfather. His third wife is comedian Mary-Anne Fahey . He has two step-children and two adopted children, who have helped to inform some of his stories about children looking for their biological parents. Young Australians' Best Book Award (YABBA) : Canberra's Own Outstanding List ( COOL Award ) : West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA) : Kids Own Australian Literature Award (KOALA) : Kids Reading Oz Choice Award (KROC) : Books I Love Best Yearly ( BILBY Award ) : Australian Writers' Guild : ABPA Joyce Nicholson Award : Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature : Prix Jeunesse Award : Australian Publishers Association – Book Industry Awards : Christian Schools' Book Award : Dymocks Children's Choice Awards : Queensland Premiers Literary Award : Deadly series (co-written with Morris Gleitzman ) Wicked series (co-written with Morris Gleitzman) The Reading Bug...and how you can help your child to catch it (2008) Greed Greed (or avarice )
1224-484: Is an insatiable desire for material gain (be it food, money, land, or animate/inanimate possessions) or social value, such as status , or power . The initial motivation for (or purpose of) greed and actions associated with it may be the promotion of personal or family survival. It may at the same time be an intent to deny or obstruct competitors from potential means (for basic survival and comfort) or future opportunities; therefore being insidious or tyrannical and having
1292-418: Is extremely overweight and spends his whole time lying in bed watching TV and eating junk food, while he just spends the whole day working, a young man (Mr. Simpkin) runs away from home; when he stops at a toilet block, he gets locked in. The messages in the graffiti written around the toilet block seem to come true. The effects of the message include: The toilet paper roll in the holder starting to "rock'n'roll,"
1360-410: Is in a difficult situation, he spins the eyes; both colours cause a different outcome. Paul Jennings (Australian author) Paul Jennings AM (born 30 April 1943), is an English-born Australian writer for children, young adults and adults. He is best known for his short stories that lead the reader through an unusual series of events and end with a twist . Many of his stories were adapted for
1428-426: Is in miniature the moral picture, if not of human life, at least of the secret pretensions of the heart of civilised man. Political economist Adam Smith thought the greed for food to be limited, but the greed for other goods to be limitless: The rich man consumes no more food than his poor neighbour. In quality it may be very different, and to select and prepare it may require more labour and art; but in quantity it
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#17330853478451496-473: Is money; not to be acquisitive, is revenue." —Cicero, Paradox., vi. 3.] I neither am in any great apprehension of wanting, nor in desire of any more: "Divinarum fructus est in copia; copiam declarat satietas." ["The fruit of riches is in abundance; satiety declares abundance." —Idem, ibid., vi. 2.] And I am very well pleased that this reformation in me has fallen out in an age naturally inclined to avarice, and that I see myself cleared of
1564-451: Is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." In his account of the Sack of Rome , historian Edward Gibbon remarks that: avarice is an insatiate and universal passion; since the enjoyment of almost every object that can afford pleasure to the different tastes and tempers of mankind may be procured by
1632-570: Is not want, but rather abundance, that creates avarice', that 'All moneyed men I conclude to be covetous', and that: 'tis the greatest folly imaginable to expect that fortune should ever sufficiently arm us against herself; 'tis with our own arms that we are to fight her; accidental ones will betray us in the pinch of the business. If I lay up, 'tis for some near and contemplated purpose; not to purchase lands, of which I have no need, but to purchase pleasure: "Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vertigal est." ["Not to be covetous,
1700-400: Is one thing she must do: return the mouth organ to Young Ponytail. By sacrificing her guitar (and the eighty-four dollars), Nicole gets the man's attention and he plucks the organ out of her mouth, he speaks to her, "It does good for those who do good, and does bad for those who do bad". He gives her the mouth organ and together they walk back to the town, as he tells her to play the song turns
1768-423: Is related to the inability to control the reformulation of "wants" once desired "needs" are eliminated. It is characterized by an insatiable desire for more, but also a dissatisfaction with what one currently has. Erich Fromm described greed as "a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction". An individual's tendency to be greedy can be seen as
1836-533: Is seen by the mythic punishment meted to Tantalus , from whom ever-present food and water is eternally withheld. Late-Republican and Imperial politicians and historical writers fixed blame for the demise of the Roman Republic on greed for wealth and power, from Sallust and Plutarch to the Gracchi and Cicero . The Persian Empires had the three-headed Zoroastrian demon Aži Dahāka (representing unslaked desire) as
1904-406: Is stuck to the ice sculpture, he tries to scream out words to other people but all he gets are laughs because of his nasal noises. He eventually runs into water and the ice sculpture melts, and the boy is near drowning. However, his hair has actually saved his life because the man saw it floating in the water! The boy wakes up and sees both the man and his cousin looking down at him, only to see what
1972-529: Is there, on this earth, no greater enemy of man (after the devil) than a gripe-money, and usurer, for he wants to be God over all men. Turks, soldiers, and tyrants are also bad men, yet must they let the people live, and confess that they are bad, and enemies, and do, nay, must, now and then show pity to some. But a usurer and money-glutton, such a one would have the whole world perish of hunger and thirst, misery and want, so far as in him lies, so that he may have all to himself, and everyone may receive from him as from
2040-452: Is turned over To grace her body or her lover; Better she feasts and drinks still more With all her wretched lover-corps. Gold charms me all the more for this: Male's now my gender, I am Avarice! Leader of the Women. With dragons be
2108-530: Is very nearly the same. But compare the spacious palace and great wardrobe of the one, with the hovel and the few rags of the other, and you will be sensible that the difference between their clothing, lodging, and household furniture, is almost as great in quantity as it is in quality. The desire of food is limited in every man by the narrow capacity of the human stomach; but the desire of the conveniencies and ornaments of building, dress, equipage, and household furniture, seems to have no limit or certain boundary. "It
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2176-467: The Baháʼí Faith among others. The Quran advises do not spend wastefully, indeed, the wasteful are brothers of the devils... , but it also says do not make your hand [as though] chained to your neck..." The Christian Gospels quote Jesus as saying, ""Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions" , and "For everything in
2244-459: The Laurence Sterne novel Tristram Shandy , the titular character describes his uncle's greed for knowledge about fortifications , saying that the 'desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it', that 'The more my uncle Toby pored over his map, the more he took a liking to it', and that 'The more my uncle Toby drank of this sweet fountain of science,
2312-433: The wolverine (whose scientific name (Gulo gulo) means "glutton") remark both on its outsized appetite, and its penchant for spoiling food remaining after it has gorged. Ancient views of greed abound in nearly every culture. In Classical Greek thought; pleonexy (an unjust desire for tangible/intangible worth attaining to others) is discussed in the works of Plato and Aristotle . Pan-Hellenic disapprobation of greed
2380-458: The awful noise of the organ until they corner Nicole at the dead magnolia tree. Nicole then wishes everyone was made of wood, like it. With another screech from the organ, it grants her wish. Everyone suddenly turns into wood in front of Nicole's very eyes! A doctor (Dr. Jensen) comes out, but is turned to wood as well when the first notes hit his ears. Nicole realizes that if she went home, her parents would turn into wood as well. She knows that there
2448-455: The bounds of law, And, oft allies and ministers of crime, To push through nights and days with hugest toil To rise untrammelled to the peaks of power— These wounds of life in no mean part are kept Festering and open by this fright of death. The Roman Stoic Epictetus also saw
2516-579: The cult classic children's television series Round the Twist . Jennings collaborated with Morris Gleitzman on the book series Wicked! , which was adapted into an animated TV series in 2000, and Deadly! . Paul Jennings was born on 30 April 1943 in Heston , Middlesex (now part of Hounslow in London ). In 1949 his family emigrated to Australia. He first attended Bentleigh West Primary School in Bentleigh ,
2584-404: The dangerous moral consequences of greed, and so advised the greedy to instead take pride in letting go of the desire for wealth, rather than be like the man with a fever who cannot drink his fill: Nay, what a price the rich themselves, and those who hold office, and who live with beautiful wives, would give to despise wealth and office and the very women whom they love and win! Do you not know what
2652-521: The end. From being a means to happiness, it has come to be itself a principal ingredient of the individual's conception of happiness. The same may be said of the majority of the great objects of human life—power, for example, or fame; except that to each of these there is a certain amount of immediate pleasure annexed, which has at least the semblance of being naturally inherent in them; a thing which cannot be said of money. In Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 's tragic play Faust , Mephistopheles , disguised as
2720-606: The fifth century, St. Augustine wrote: Greed is not a defect in the gold that is desired but in the man who loves it perversely by falling from justice which he ought to esteem as incomparably superior to gold [...] St. Thomas Aquinas states greed "is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things." He also wrote that greed can be "a sin directly against one's neighbor, since one man cannot over-abound (superabundare) in external riches, without another man lacking them, for temporal goods cannot be possessed by many at
2788-419: The greater ardour to possess sixteen; if that wish is achieved, he will want forty or will complain that he knows not how to make both ends meet. The Roman poet Lucretius thought that the fear of dying and poverty were major drivers of greed, with dangerous consequences for morality and order: And greed, again, and the blind lust of honours Which force poor wretches past
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2856-405: The greater was the heat and impatience of his thirst'. The Swiss philosophe Jean-Jacques Rousseau compared man in the state of nature , who has no need of greed since he can find food anywhere, with man in the state of society : for whom first necessaries have to be provided, and then superfluities; delicacies follow next, then immense wealth, then subjects, and then slaves. He enjoys not
2924-507: The ground for having concentrated too much on earthly thoughts. Dante's near-contemporary, Geoffrey Chaucer , wrote of greed in his Prologue to The Pardoner's Tale these words: "Radix malorum est Cupiditas" (or "the root of all evil is greed"); however the Pardoner himself serves us as a caricature of churchly greed. Martin Luther especially condemned the greed of the usurer : Therefore,
2992-522: The ice sculpture was based on, the fish man's cousin. Was later adapted as an episode of Round The Twist . A boy is entering a flying contest; the wings that he has built are broken and his hang-glider has been stolen by the school bully (who is also entering the contest), so he relies on a cat-shaped hat that has washed ashore. This hat seems to come to life every now and then; whenever it does, it opens its eyes, and it forces whoever wears it to do whatever it sees someone else doing. The cat-shaped hat sees
3060-431: The last one was striptease music, she tries to stop playing the song but she couldn't, the song must be played fully. After this, she lets the frightened tourists go, with no money in her hat. It is here Nicole finally remembers what Young Ponytail told her: "Play your own tune. Not other peoples. You have your own melodies, use them." So she does and several people come out and put money in her hat, including Mr. Windfall
3128-412: The love of money is not only one of the strongest moving forces of human life, but money is, in many cases, desired in and for itself; the desire to possess it is often stronger than the desire to use it, and goes on increasing when all the desires which point to ends beyond it, to be compassed by it, are falling off. It may be then said truly, that money is desired not for the sake of an end, but as part of
3196-496: The owner of his new rebuilt general store , her teacher Mr. Ralph, a tough Year Seven girl called Sue Rickets and two other tough kids as well. By the time it is over, Nicole has gained eighty-four dollars. Tomorrow comes, and she takes the mouth organ and the money to school, she wonders if she can get the one thousand dollars before 12 o'clock. At school the mouth organ suddenly trembles in Nicole's hands, she then sees Young Ponytail by
3264-455: The people turned into wood back to normal. She then notices Mr. Hardbristle's face through his window and he comes out and stares at the magnolia tree... the song revived the tree! After Young Ponytail tells her she had one more song to play and Nicole does, a tune of love. When she finally opens her eyes, Mr. Hardbristle and everyone in town is smiling... the magnolia tree is in full bloom. Tired of being bossed around by his brother (Gobble), who
3332-417: The possession of wealth. In the pillage of Rome, a just preference was given to gold and jewels, which contain the greatest value in the smallest compass and weight: but, after these portable riches had been removed by the more diligent robbers, the palaces of Rome were rudely stripped of their splendid and costly furniture. In his essay Utilitarianism , John Stuart Mill writes about greed for money that:
3400-461: The rich." His belief is that our concern for one another is the force which creates society and holds it together; and that avarice destroys this bond. " Laozi , the semi-legendary founder of Taoism , was critical of the desire for profit over social good. In the Tao Te Ching , Laozi observes that "the more implements to add to their profit that the people have, the greater disorder is there in
3468-484: The room and the class groans. The mouth organ turns hostile and twists and turns in Nicole's hands as she blows into it again and it suddenly jams inside her mouth, becoming a real mouth organ! As Nicole staggers to her feet, a discordant melody fills the air and everyone in the classroom started to come after Nicole, angry at her. Nicole breaks free from the furious students and runs outside. The weather turned to rain and everyone in town chases after her desperate to stop
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#17330853478453536-599: The same time." Dante's 14th century epic poem Inferno assigns those committed to the deadly sin of greed to punishment in the fourth of the nine circles of Hell. The inhabitants are misers , hoarders , and spendthrifts ; they must constantly battle one another. The guiding spirit, Virgil , tells the poet these souls have lost their personality in their disorder, and are no longer recognizable: "That ignoble life, Which made them vile before, now makes them dark, And to all knowledge indiscernible." In Dante's Purgatory , avaricious penitents were bound and laid face down on
3604-404: The school gate through the school window, she ends up not giving back the mouth organ as greed takes over her mind, declaring the mouth organ to be hers instead. Almost immediately things look different, no one was looking at Nicole anymore and no one asked her to play it, the mouth organ became cursed. As Nicole forces the organ to her mouth, instead of the soothing melodies a horrible noise fills
3672-426: The situation were nuanced: This result is the fault only of those, who seek money, not from poverty or to supply their necessary wants, but because they have learned the arts of gain, wherewith they bring themselves to great splendour. Certainly, they nourish their bodies, according to custom, but scantily, believing that they lose as much of their wealth as they spend on the preservation of their body. But they who know
3740-499: The state and clan." Xunzi believed that selfishness and greed were fundamental aspects of human nature and that society must endeavor to suppress these negative tendencies through strict laws. This belief was the basis of legalism , a philosophy that would become the prevailing ideology of the Qin dynasty and continues to be influential in China today. Conversely, the philosopher Yang Zhu
3808-400: The structure of society as a negative and inhibitor to the development of societies. Keynes wrote, "The world is not so governed from above that private and social interest always coincide. It is not so managed here below that in practice they coincide." Both views continue to pose fundamental questions in today's economic thinking. Weber posited that the spirit of capitalism integrated
3876-719: The thirst of a man in a fever is like, how different from the thirst of a man in health? The healthy man drinks and his thirst is gone: the other is delighted for a moment and then grows giddy, the water turns to gall, and he vomits and has colic, and is more exceeding thirsty. Such is the condition of the man who is haunted by desire in wealth or in office, and in wedlock with a lovely woman: jealousy clings to him, fear of loss, shameful words, shameful thoughts, unseemly deeds. In his exegesis on Naboth ( De Nabute , 389) Ambrose of Milan writes "omnium est terra, non diuitam,sed pauciores qui non utuntur suo quam qui utuntur", translated by Pope Paul VI as " The earth belongs to everyone, not only to
3944-445: The toilet block getting locked, people gathering around and dancing, a rat being flushed away into the toilet and a velvet throne replacing the toilet. As the toilet block opens, the man writes a message saying that his brother disappears and the man goes home and sees that his brother is gone forever A boy burns his buttocks after trying to photocopy them, causing him to feel pain whenever he sits down. He then helps his grandfather find
4012-482: The tree. Due to it being dead, they were about to leave when Nicole plays on the mouth organ, but not her own songs. She starts with, "Tom Dooley" by The Kingston Trio , which magically causes the tourists to cry. Next she plays the cancan , it magically causes the tourists to do the dance. The tourists freak out at this and scramble to the bus. Desperately, Nicole tries two more songs, those being "Kookaburra" and " You Can Leave Your Hat On ". However, upon realizing
4080-417: The true use of money, and who fix the measure of wealth solely with regard to their actual needs, live content with little. John Locke claims that unused property is wasteful and an offence against nature, because "as anyone can make use of to any advantage of life before it spoils; so much he may by his labour fix a property in. Whatever is beyond this, is more than his share, and belongs to others." In
4148-428: The two richest children in his class, hoping to embarrass them. When a boy gets his earrings confiscated at school, he buys a new one. But this one is enchanted; it causes whoever wears it to get rubbish attracted to them. Was later adapted as an episode of Round The Twist . A boy's parents are getting divorced, and he can't decide whom to stay with. So he invents a robot man with green eyes and red eyes; whenever he
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#17330853478454216-474: The urinating contest and his brother hits the roof. Was later loosely adapted as an episode of Round The Twist . Seven years ago before the events of this story, a bushfire was raging out of control. A group of four young girls — among them the then-six year old protagonist , Nicole — (called the Brownies in the book), led by Mr. and Mrs. Hardbristle were escaping for their lives. When they reached town, no one
4284-505: The world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world." . In the Aristophanes satire Plutus , an Athenian and his slave say to Plutus , the god of wealth, that while men may become weary of greed for love, music, figs, and other pleasures, they will never tire of greed for wealth: If a man has thirteen talents, he has all
4352-521: Was I for chest and bin; 'Twas even said my zeal was sin. But since in years most recent and depraving Woman is wont no longer to be saving And, like each tardy payer, collars Far more desires than she has dollars, The husband now has much to bore him; Wherever he looks, debts loom before him. Her spinning-money
4420-666: Was having trouble reading. Jennings's short stories were adapted for the first two seasons of children's television series Round the Twist in 1989 and 1992, and then later in 1998 for the only season of series Driven Crazy . In 2020 Jennings's memoir, Untwisted: The Story of My Life , was published by Allen & Unwin . Jennings started writing it ten years earlier, and it is his longest piece of writing. In it, he examines many aspects of his life, including harbouring feelings of guilt about disliking his cold and emotionally abusive father, and having thoughts of attacking him. Jennings first married aged 22. He has six children, and
4488-451: Was in sight and Mrs. Hardbristle sacrificed her life by digging a hole for her husband and the four girls, she suffocated in the smoke. A small magnolia tree was planted in the same hole to honor her sacrifice. Mr. Hardbristle however was depressed, he thought he was a coward and states to Nicole that he won't be happy until the tree blooms, as it tells him his wife has forgiven him. Seven years have passed and Nicole, now thirteen and using
4556-444: Was known for his embrace of total self-interest. However, the school of Yangism did not specifically endorse greed; rather, it emphasized a form of hedonism where individual well-being takes precedence over all else. Mencius was convinced of the innate goodness of human nature, but nevertheless warned against the excessive drive towards greed. Like Laozi, he was worried about the destabilizing and destructive effects of greed: "In
4624-503: Was widely directed towards Jews. In the Books of Moses , the commandments of the sole deity are written in the book of Exodus (20:2-17), and again in Deuteronomy (5:6-21); two of these particularly deal directly with greed, prohibiting theft and covetousness . These commandments are moral foundations of not only Judaism , but also of Christianity , Islam , Unitarian Universalism , and
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