“The New Testament says much more about the dangers of riches to one’s soul than it does about many well-publicized issues about which many Christians feel so strongly. Yet, you never know this by the agenda advanced by America’s most prominent and politically active Christian organizations, magazines and radio talk shows…It’s unwise for Christians to keep averting our gaze from warnings that Christ placed in bright neon lights…In pursuit of wealth and worldly pleasures, Christians have become virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the world. We have bought into non-Christian precepts. Note the irony, Christians seeking and encouraging others to seek that which our Lord repeatedly warned against.”
Peter Wehner, the director of public policy at the conservative political think-tank Empower America, as quoted in Faithful Finances 101 by Gary Moore (West Conshohocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2005) 181.