mammon

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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

Big-time directors and the studios that bankroll them prefer to dwell in the comfortable, familiar center, where mammon is God and the only divine word comes from focus groups.

From Time • Mar. 27, 2014

Unless this hardest of deeds be done first—this inheritance of mammon and the world cast away,—all other deeds are useless.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)