money worship
Treating cash sacred
Money worship is treating wealth as the highest value or organizing one's life around its pursuit.
The term carries disapproval, suggesting that someone has elevated money to a status it doesn't deserve—making it an idol rather than a tool: Their money worship has destroyed any sense of community.
The phrase implies moral or spiritual corruption.
- greedExcessive desire for wealth
- root of all evilSupposed source of wrongdoing
- materialismPrioritizing goods over spirit
- mammonWealth as deity
- avariceExcessive desire for riches
almighty dollar · wealth · idolatry · prosperity gospel · gold · consumerism · keeping up with the Joneses · status symbol · hoarding · status · luxury · filthy rich · excess · capitalist · fat cat · affluence · opulence · covetous
- greedgreed, avarice, covetousness, cupidity, materialism
- money mindsetfinancial stress, abundance mindset, scarcity mindset, poverty mindset, fear of loss
- money mindsetsfrugal, thrifty, generous, stingy, greedy
- Idolatryfalse gods, idol, graven image, graven images, golden calf
money worshipasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
anti-materialism · simple living · renunciation · antimaterialism · minimalism
money worshipspiritualism
Communion with the deceased
otherworldliness · spiritual devotion · transcendentalism · mysticism · vow of poverty
money worshipaltruism
Prioritizing others' wellbeing
philanthropy · generosity · selflessness · communalism · anti-capitalism
money, worship, moneys, monies, moneyed, monetary, monetize, monetized, monetization