Mammon (concept)

Mammon /ˈmæmən/, in the New Testament of the Bible, is greed or material wealth, and in the Middle Ages was often personified as a deity, and sometimes included in the seven princes of Hell. Jesus in his famous Sermon on the Mount tells His followers that they cannot serve two masters, both God and Mammon, since they will either love the one and hate the other, or they will devote themselves to the one and despise the other.

Empath: The Luckiest Smurf stories
Trader Smurf of the EMPATH: The Luckiest Smurf story series was a one-time worshiper of Mammon who was so enamored with the money system that humans use that he tried to implement the same system in the Smurf Village, with disastrous results.