Here, it is all powerful. If you have a great deal of it, your sins will be forgiven; indeed, having it may mean you shall not be deemed to sin at all, or at least won't suffer for your sins. With it, you shall not want, and you will fear no evil.
For the wealthy, it is their refuge and strength. No weapon fashioned against them shall succeed. They will refute any tongue raised against them.
This being the case, why not call money God? Why not worship it as God? If love of God is our purpose, if God is what we should strive for, we all love money and strive to have it, strive mightily to have more of it, and more and more. Indeed, we do nothing else.
We suffer without money. Just as we do without God. We dread the absence of Money/God. We do all we can to remain in the presence of Money/God. We have a duty to express our faith in it, to worship it. We do that by spending it or harboring it.
A fifth-century Christian zealot proclaimed "There is no crime for those who Christ." As money is God now, there is no crime for those who have money. Next to possessing, making and keeping money, all is is secondary. That's why threats being made by the current government against money worshippers so often in these sad times--to withhold money from them, to prevent them from making money, or to cause them to spend money--are so successful. Considerations of justice, Constitutional rights and duties, morality generally, virtue, honesty, mean nothing here in the Kingdom of Fear.
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