From Taylor Swift to the Rolling Stones, billionaires keep taking while the people keep worshipping. This is not capitalism. It is idolatry.
“You shall have no other gods before Me.” – Exodus 20:3
Taylor Swift is worth over a billion dollars. LeBron James, Tom Brady, Beyoncé, the Rolling Stones—the list is endless. These celebrities already possess more wealth than entire nations, yet they continue demanding more. More ticket sales. More streams. More endorsements. More billions piled on top of billions.
And let’s be honest: they get away with it because we let them.
The Cult of Celebrity
In modern America, celebrity worship has replaced religion. Pop stars like Taylor Swift are treated as living goddesses. Millions dissect every lyric she writes, every carefully staged photo she posts. Fans spend $1,000 for a ticket just to glimpse her on stage, weeping as though salvation itself has arrived in a stadium.
Sports aren’t any different. Athletes sign $200 million contracts while their fans work overtime to afford the jerseys and the tickets. The public has been conditioned to pour their wages into the pockets of the ultra-rich—already drowning in money.
This is not healthy capitalism. This is exploitation dressed as entertainment.
Bread and Circuses: Rome Repeats Itself
Ancient Rome pacified its citizens with “bread and circuses.” Free grain, violent gladiator games, endless entertainment—all designed to distract the people from the corruption of their leaders and the collapse of moral order.
“The love of money is the root of all evil.” – 1 Timothy 6:10
The Romans idolized their gladiators and performers while their empire rotted. Today, we do the same. Instead of gladiators, we worship football players. Instead of Roman theaters, we fill concert arenas. Instead of emperors buying loyalty with free grain, we have billionaires selling illusions—only now, the “bread” costs $500 a ticket and $10 for water.
The Evil of Endless Taking
Taylor Swift could hold her next tour for free and still be wealthier than any king in history. The Rolling Stones, men in their 80s, could easily retire and spend the rest of their days in comfort. Instead, they still squeeze fans for another payday.
Greed has no finish line.
And while celebrities rake in billions, fans sink deeper into debt, working two jobs, struggling to pay rent—yet still convinced that another concert, another jersey, another show will make them whole.
Fans Share the Guilt
Here’s the truth fans don’t want to hear: celebrities wouldn’t be billionaires if the people didn’t enable them.
Every ticket, every jersey, every subscription is another brick in the golden palace of greed.
“You cannot serve both God and mammon.” – Matthew 6:24
When fans elevate Taylor Swift or Tom Brady to the center of their lives, they are guilty of idolatry. Tears in stadiums are not devotion—they are misplaced worship.
The Catholic Standard
Catholic teaching does not condemn wealth in itself. It condemns selfishness, greed, and exploitation. “To whom much is given, much will be required” (Luke 12:48).
Wealth is a stewardship, not a trophy. True charity costs something. Christ gave His life. The saints gave their fortunes. Today’s celebrities give crumbs—and call it generosity.
What Must Change
- Celebrities must give back. Not token donations, but real sacrifice: free concerts, billions poured into schools and hospitals, generosity that actually costs them.
- Fans must repent. Stop feeding the idol machine. Stop throwing money at billionaires. Stop worshipping those who care nothing for you beyond your wallet.
Final Word
The sickness of our age is not just celebrity greed—it is the idolatry of the people who enable it. Rome fell under the weight of its entertainment addiction. America—and much of the modern world—is walking the same path.
Enough is enough. Celebrities must stop taking. Fans must stop worshipping.
Because when the lights fade, the stadiums empty, and the last curtain falls, no one will stand before a crowd. Every soul—rich and poor, famous and forgotten—will stand before Christ.
And He will not ask how many tickets you sold or concerts you attended.
He will ask:
“Did you worship Me, or did you worship idols?” – Matthew 25:40
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AMEN
This is what Lilyth Looks like now. Once she was an old woman, now since she dumped her body and stole 30 million she looks like this. Problem, once a thief…… etc, and so it goes, Also, once you sell your soul for power- do you think you can get it back?
Beware of people who promote this kind of activity because they do, do it.
There is ONE God, Of all and this is what He said:
“Woe to you who think, God does not see, Woe to you who say, there is no God, Woe to you who say, no one will know, today we eat and drink, their God does not care. Woe to those who put heavy yolks on the orphan, the widow, the sojourner, When these cry out to me in their distress, I will hear them and take vengence for their supplications”
Robert David Steele once said that the diamond studded toilets in the Vatican had to go.
“Remove the log in your eye first, before you remove the speck in the eye in your brother.”