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Capitalism the new religion?

Everybody wants to change everything!
Not everything changes for the better for everyone!
Just a century ago, life was simple. When things became complicated and hard to deal with, help usually came from the community. Various strata of people from the society with various expertise came forth to offer would contribute their 2 cents worth to solve it.
Slowly when problems became more abstract and less tangible, the snake oil salesmen and religious men filled in the gap.
When diseases were considered incurable and terminal, people started looking at it as God-sent to punish the non believers and those who strayed from the true teachings. Paradoxically, these ostracised victims were cared for individuals who had surrounded all their worldly freedom in the way of the Lord. These God's men even went as far as to educate natives to the marvel of culture of the Western civilisation with the fringe benefit of the words of the Lord thrown in for good measure.
It was a time when religion was really 'God sent'. The uncultured uncouth natives, through the eyes of the visitors were shown glimpses of the splendour of modern living. The downtrodden were given their dignity and a place in the sun for them to flourish or least to live as human.
At a time when ignorance was rife and information was the purview of the selected elite few, this arrangement worked just fine. Knowledge was sacred and cross examination was sacrilegious. With the advancement of science and technology and the Industrial Revolution, the secrets of the universe gradually unfolded. Now, nobody associated daily occurrences to divinity but just the way things were. Divinity took a back seat and has to pay for the follies of their predecessors.
Industries created consumerism. Commerce increased by leaps and bounds. Money which used to be a tool of trade soon began replacing and compensating for negative human traits. Class division is society crept in and ruled all facets of life. The monetary divide between the haves and have-nots started becoming a concern to all.
Akin to washing the sins that they started in the first place, capitalism, tried to write off its mischief through community social responsibility projects.
What religion used to do for the general public a century ago, condemning sinners and helping them pick up (the duality of man), beholders of the new religion- capitalism, i.e. financiers, their high priests, and lawyers, their executioners, appear in the sea of flash lights and cameras to appear to show empathy for the victims of their hoodwinked master plan and boasts all about in their another tool of their crime - the media!
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