mammon

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But there are signs in 2020 that mammon is making a comeback.

From The Guardian • Sep. 13, 2020

A: Some of the most prominent modernist structures are churches and banks, which, in regard to what you are designing for, are almost opposites: God and mammon.

From Washington Post • Aug. 17, 2017

As ever, faith follows mammon, and mammon, faith.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2016

But for Peter Salovey, the president of Yale University, the conference's obsession with the present, and with mammon, is short-sighted.

From BBC • Jan. 22, 2016

Walter Map declared the Cistercian creed to be that no man could serve God without mammon.

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