How, then, can we practically differentiate between the life-giving, relationship-infusing, beneficial uses of money and the relationship-destroying, life-draining worship of money?

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An extensive Chicago Tribune investigation confirms that Islamist extremists are taking over mosques in the American heartland, driving out normal Muslim clerics and using the houses of worship to raise money for terrorist causes.

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We still worship at the altar of funny money.

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The 20 churches are among 32 Grade I and Grade II listed places of worship across the east receiving the Heritage Lottery Fund money.

BBC: St Peter and St Paul, Burgh Castle

The chapel closed for regular worship during the 1980s but a local group called the Friends of Hen Dy Cwrdd remained to raised money to try to and ensure the chapel could be preserved for future generations.

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But it is as well to keep in mind that many intellectuals in the West still consider capitalism to be immoral: too devoted to a vulgar worship of money, too dependent on greed, too deeply founded on adversarial individualism.

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The money for the churches has come from the repair grants for places of worship scheme, which will be replaced in June by the grants for places of worship programme.

BBC: St Peter and St Paul, Burgh Castle