The United States of Mammon

Most Americans would laugh at the idea of worshipping a golden calf. Then they spend forty years organizing their lives around debt, career advancement, asset accumulation, and the approval of “the economy.” Solomon warned that the borrower becomes servant to the lender. Jesus warned that no one can serve both God and Mammon. The old gods demanded temples, priests, and sacrifices. The modern god simply asks for your time, your attention, your family, your peace, and eventually your identity. The question isn’t whether modern society worships. The question is whether we’ve mistaken our servant for our master.

When Mammon Drowns

What if the next great flood isn’t water?

What if it’s a collapse of confidence?

For generations we have been taught to trust retirement accounts, stock markets, debt-fueled growth, central banks, and an economic system so large that most people don’t understand how it actually works. We assume tomorrow will look like today because it always has. The people in Noah’s day thought the same thing. They were eating, drinking, marrying, buying, selling, building, and planning for the future right up until the moment their world disappeared beneath the waves. If the modern god of Mammon were ever exposed as a false idol, the greatest losses might not be financial. They might be spiritual. Millions would discover that the thing they trusted to save them never could. The question isn’t whether markets rise or fall. The question is whether your faith rises and falls with them.