THE
GOD OF MONEY

Topics: Catechism; Greed; Idolatry; Money; Worldliness

References: Exodus 20:1–3; Matthew 6:24

What is the chief end of man?

A. To get rich.

In what way?

A. Dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

Who is God, the one only and true?

A. Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock—father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; these are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

—Mark Twain, “Revised Catechism,” New York Tribune (September 27, 1871)