Entering the Kingdom requires leaving the world. Each of us is attracted to different things and combinations of things. “Collectors” have wide ranges of interests that indicate how extreme and how specialized people can be in their zeal to accumulate.
Many collectors tend to think that their area of acquisition denotes their superiority as a person. Those who collect the most expensive things tend to think that they are “better” in many ways.
Every collectible item, which is to say, most of the items in the world, is what it is. In Aquinian terms, it is “prime matter” and “substantial form”.
Catholic Fundamentalists go beyond Aquinas. Every physical object has a nature beyond its substance and appearance. Every thing exists to become the basis for a human being to decide whether or not: “Do I want that thing enough to lie, cheat, or steal to get it?”
Catholic Fundamentalists, while they may be more acquisitive than necessary in this life, have enough sense to know that having “too much” is, at best, an embarrassment.
