When people try to consecrate their lives and want to devote themselves to a cause, or long for faith, they are faced with this either-or, the question of God or mammon. It is not true that everything religious is united and everything irreligious belongs to the other side. It would be nearer the truth to draw a dividing line right through both the religious and the nonreligious. Not all relationships are connected to the same center, nor are they motivated by the same thing. The religion of many who call themselves Christians and confess to the name of Jesus Christ has nothing to do with the God of the Messiah or the coming kingdom.
Wars arise only from the mammon spirit.
Only out of the mammon spirit does prostitution arise. You cannot serve God and mammon. Early Christianity recognized in all sharpness that religiosity is hostile to God. They testified to a totally different order, calling it the message wrapped in mystery, concealed from those who are lost because they have been blinded by the god of this world. The former is the spirit of this world, personified by the media.