“The outcome of greed is poverty…People that choose wealth over freedom can have neither…People are satisfied by becoming reconciled to God, not by acquiring wealth…Idols of mammon invite us to place our hopes on wealth, tell us that taking is better than giving, tempt us to covet what our neighbor has, convince us that we have been wronged because we do not possess as much as we desire, and finally, pervert the sense of justice that alone can preserve peace. If we continue to worship them, the unrest and discontent that mark our society now are only a sample of the destruction that is to come.”
Herbert Schlossberg in Idols for Destruction: The Conflict of Christian Faith and American Culture (Wheaton: Crossway, 1990) 132-139.