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The Master of Mammon is a mirage.
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Mammon makes you feel powerful.
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Mammon makes you feel secure.
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Mammon makes you feel independent and self-sufficient.
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Mammon feels good, tastes good, and looks good.
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Mammon is your best life now.
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Mammon is tied to shopping.
a. There is a cycle of shopping, buying, consuming, accumulating, discarding, and more shopping.
b. “In a discussion about what lies at the heart of American culture, scholar David Henderson says, "America's favorite tourist attraction, beating out Disney World and drawing nearly ten times as many people as the Grand Canyon, is the Mall of America outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, a shopping mall complete with more than four hundred stores, an amusement park, and a full-size roller coaster." In 2011, what some have called the "mecca of materialism" drew over 40 million visitors, while Disneyland drew just 16.1 million and the Grand Canyon just 4.2 million.
c. David Henderson concludes, "America is a land of compulsive shoppers …. The mall is our home away from home and our national pastime."
d. There is a cycle of shopping, buying, consuming, accumulating, discarding, and more shopping.
i. And all of that complexity keeps us from the simplicity of One Master.
iv. Mammon ties us down:
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Property and wealth and pleasure have a tendency to tie us down.
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They can consume us and rob us from time and emotional energy.
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The person who has nothing is FREE.
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They don’t stay up at night wondering if someone will rob the boat they don’t own.