;s success. However, this type of materialistic worldview renders more and more people to strive toward the acquisition of wealth and power-sometimes mischievously-in fear of rejection by society and the fear of deprecating one's self-worth and social identity. Moreover, oftentimes people succumb to social pressure and reluctantly abandon their personal moral values and beliefs in order to sustain themselves in a world where greed is the source of decent living and survival. In 1 Timothy 6:9 it says: "People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge me
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