From Globalization, Spirituality, and Justice by Daniel Groody

“In large part, the root cause of global injustice is anchored in a fundamental theological and anthropological error that has been referred to today as ‘money-theism.’ Money-theism deals with the idolization of capital, expressed as worship of the gods of the marketplace, and is often practiced through the rituals of the stock market and the liturgies of global capitalism. In this system people are measured in terms of their net worth, accumulated possessions, and incomes rather than their human worth, the quality of their character, and their spiritual depth. The value and worth of human beings have become more and more reduced to a ‘market fundamentalism,’ where the market alone defines what it means to be human.”

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