Word: mammonize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guilty," is the dictum of the mathematical prophet. And by educational institutions he means both the elementary schools and the universities. "Our colleges are diploma factories for department stores, giving away anything wanted, irrespective of whether it makes for happiness or discontent." The old problem of serving God and Mammon has taken on a new meaning for Mammon has developed an efficient, complex...
...West who still are old-fashioned and superstitious enough to follow anything that smacks of religion are on the wrong road. We should turn rather from Christ to Abou Ben Adhem, who did not love God but rather his fellow men. For when our worship of Mammon has filled our purses to satiety we turn not to fighting the Devil, or Sin, or ourselves, but to social reform, to fighting tuberculosis or hookworm, or vice. The idea is presumably that if we try to patch up the botch Jehovah has made of keeping mankind in running order, Jehovah will repay...
...Unless the Church is to surrender to the pagan deities, Venus, Mammon and Mars, it must use the international road provided by the press...
...pagan deities in question. None knew better how Venus, having maddened or blessed some hot Italian poet, some Indian rajah or swart Turk, makes her swift progress from the harem or a Paris divorce court to U. S. breakfast tables. None knew better how religion might be jostled by Mammon, despatches from an ecumenical council vying for space with the details of a petroleum coup or soap king's testament. Mars, the god who more than any other has the power to forge huge newspaper circulations (the Spanish-American war "made" the New York Journal-TIME...
...enemy was Mammon incarnated for the moment's argument ?"capitalized with the wealth of Rockefeller coin and the aid of Marshall Field and others in order that Mammon may win the battle [for modernism]. . . . The establishment of Chicago University was the beginning of Rockefeller wealth to mammonize the Baptist Church." The works of these philanthropists were "the works of the Devil." So the flaying went...