I have been thinking about the similarities between economics and religion since I was in middle school. I believe if our current civilization continues for another millennium we will look at the post-industrial revolution as the second dark age. An era where we believed as much in the promise of riches as they believed in the promise of blessings or an afterlife in the first dark ages. In both eras the wealth of the citizens went to a select few who were eventually corrupted by the influx of money and power. Hopefully the second Renaissance is coming soon.