I'm Worried My Investments Might Be Immoral
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🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If your private student loans are in default, you're not out of options. |
| 0:06.6 | Go to whyrefi.com slash Ramsey. |
| 0:09.1 | I've been wrestling with whether certain ways of making money are morally right from a Christian perspective. |
| 0:15.1 | I understand working for a salary, creating a useful product or service, or renting housing at a fair price. |
| 0:20.8 | But I feel conflicted about |
| 0:22.8 | things like stocks and bank deposits because they seem more indirect and harder to evaluate ethically. |
| 0:28.5 | For example, when you buy and later sell stock for a profit, it can feel like you're benefiting |
| 0:35.7 | without really creating value. And with banks, you do not always |
| 0:39.2 | know how your money is being used. Am I overthinking this? Or are some forms of investing more |
| 0:44.2 | consistent with Christian convictions than others? Yeah, I do think you're overthinking it, but I don't |
| 0:49.7 | take a shot at you there. I think, you know, you've got a great heart. I think you've got to use |
| 0:54.8 | God-given common sense and also that still small voice of discernment. And I think that when |
| 1:02.0 | it comes to just your general investing in banks, you don't need to feel guilty about making money |
| 1:06.4 | on your deposits or making money on your money market or making money on your investment strategy, |
| 1:12.5 | certainly what we teach here at Ramsey. So I think while you're overthinking it, I appreciate |
| 1:18.1 | where your heart is. And I think you just have to back off to, wait a second, am I in any way |
| 1:22.4 | making money through some type of Ponzi scheme, right? Now, that is dishonesty. That is lying. Making money |
| 1:29.7 | off of evil actions would be your meter. And so outside of that, I think you're overthinking |
| 1:35.6 | it. But I bring you, am I bringing harm to someone? Yeah, that's the other thing. Right. And so, |
| 1:40.3 | you know, when you deposit money in a bank and they pay you interest, you're not bringing harm to |
| 1:45.1 | someone. You can't control what the bank does. Okay, it's the same thing as if you go buy groceries |
| 1:50.8 | at a grocery store, they now have your money. If they go and do something evil with it, you |
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