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You forgot /stein$/ and /^Gold/. Also, you didn't mention "big-nosed"! What is this, a civil discussion??

If OP was being anti-Semitic, then it would surprise him that RMS is also of the Jewish persuasion.

RMS is an atheist

I guess I should've said "of Jewish ancestry".

While what you say may be true, the large majority of your rhetoric is unhelpful to this conversation. So it's no wonder someone it's flagged it.

Radix malorum est cupiditas. That is to say, greed (or in early English bibles, "the love of money") is the root of all evil.

Money is a medium of exchange, a proxy token for barter. The need to have more than others (whether wealth in its various guises or power) is the corrupting influence. Or so the Pardoners would have us believe.