Money becomes the meaning for life. Money becomes the means of salvation for life. One relates to people according to money. We can all identify how it would be understandable that someone would rely upon money rather than a mystery such as God. We can all see how one can become the substitute for the other.
People can become addicted to money.
We no longer control it. It begins to control us. We are limited only by our imagination in the gods that we can create to replace the mystery of God. It's as if our substitute for God takes over our lives and takes us into our own Babylonian bondage. As congregations, we tend to depend upon other things than God for our security.