I have been a Christian since aged 9. I know the confusion the New Testement causes, and filthy lucre in the old days was not generally private enterprise (indeed, such was limited to bare subsistence and growing food) and government was the chief way to make the "filth." Christ himself spoke more than once on the fairness of differing wages based on what was agreed upon. I don't hear some anti-capitalist screed on matters that are mostly spiritual in dimension. The anger of Christ to money changers and the rich of that time was the abuse of the temple and the dominion of power by Rome in essence.

Of course each of us can decide to abuse material wealth and not give or share time or whatnot, but it is a mistake to automatically conclude that since we have an industrial and post industrial framework, just because someone is wealthy does not automatically mean it falls into the same context as what we mentioned long ago. Having said that, yes, money can be a God in itself, but so can gluttony, sexual promiscuity, idolotry of Hollywood starlets, raw entertainment, and hatred.