Is money the God of our time?

[strongstylekarate]

Is "money" the *god* of our time?

Is "capitalism" the fastest growing *religion*?

Are the bankers are the saints and the banks are the churches of our time?

 

[SoberAwakening]

C.R.E.A.M = Cash rules everything around me.

And money/currency has been the "god" for much longer than just "our time."

If you study old school catholic church popes, they were like mob bosses. They were rich, invested in land, owned property. It got to the point where kings and rulers would call upon the popes to go talk to their enemies cause they knew the pope could strong arm a lot of them based off of their power and influence over currency and property.

 

[nostradumbass]

Why are money and capitalism in quotes? And no, churches are the "churches of our time".

 

[Pugilistic]

What kind of fucking "thread" is this?

 

[Aegon Spengler]

Money is worshipped more than anything else in America, yes. The environment is the devil. The most faithful destroy it and call anyone who talks about it a liar.

 

[strongstylekarate]

I'm a devout Catholic, but I'm a pure capitalist.

And I can't control it.

 

[SammyPops]

I think its almost fame. I know cash is involved, but think of people like Kim Kardasian and all those fuckers, they're basically famous for being famous.

 

[TeTe]

Unfortunately it pretty much always has. It used to be gold, now it's currency.

 

[WaylonMercy5150]

The failures of America; education, prison systems, opioid addiction, homelessness, mass shootings, and gang violence are a direct result of capitalism and imperialism.

 

[Chesten_Hesten]

Money is the God of all time. At least Man's time.

 

[CoolB]

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[zapataxiv]

god and religion are just the money of social engineering. money has always been god, people just tell you otherwise because heaven is held by a few while the rest work their whole lives and never get a piece.

 

[SmilinDesperado]

Not that simple.
It's not only that people love money, it's you NEED it to live any kind of half decent life

 

[Pupi]

After the Death of God, money and race became the main sources of order. It was a smooth transition since the institutional network was already there and society needed reformation and a change of meaning.

 

[Idonotbelieveit]

Money is king

 

[syct23]

He's pronounced Bitcoin now noob...

 

[nostradumbass]

The failures of America; education, prison systems, opioid addiction, homelessness, mass shootings, and gang violence are a direct result of capitalism and imperialism.

So the thing that has lifted more people out of poverty than anything else and cut global poverty in half is the cause of homelessness? That's a hard sell, as is the rest of it when places like USSR did not have capitalism but had labor camps, mass killings, dire poverty, extreme alcoholism, and plenty of gang violence and organized crime. You probably should have looked into it before typing that.

 

[Clippy]

Unfortunately it pretty much always has. It used to be gold, now it's currency.

Does Gold even still exist?

 

[Aegon Spengler]

So the thing that has lifted more people out of poverty than anything else and cut global poverty in half is the cause of homelessness? That's a hard sell, as is the rest of it when places like USSR did not have capitalism but had labor camps, mass killings, dire poverty, extreme alcoholism, and plenty of gang violence and organized crime. You probably should have looked into it before typing that.

The USSR was a colonial power as well, along with being a dungeon state. And the reason the majority of the world was/is languishing in proverty stricken conditions in the first place is colonial capitalism. Communism as practiced, with all its horrors, would never have existed without it.

 

[Not A Theist]

I'd say the notion of the market, in the sense I think you're using, rather than money, is closer to that. If that is what you're getting at, you're basically asking "Do we live in a neoliberal time?" - to which I think the answer is yes.

That being said, no, money isn't the "God" of our time, nor is the market. The market would be more like the religiosity of the time - the atmosphere of piety which represents the norm of practices of worship - and there is a whole pantheon of gods rather than a God, with no single god having primacy.