Mammon, Lord of Greed: Biblical Demons Explained

[@Tony4You]

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[@Reno_user]

Astaroth the main man.

[@Ushi_archive]

We need a video about atvaka or Buddha

[@Reno_user]

Finally! Mammon is such a interesting and obscure demon, it's about time Tony covered him!

[@pauliussvirskas6734]

Not interesting at all. Deadly.

[@jacobbelfegor8761]

belphegor is best

[@lauraanne5175]

really? WHat did you learn? It was 8 minutes about history of greed then basic wiki info from Milton.

[@pauliussvirskas6734]

@@lauraanne5175 I know from experience. Mammon is a foul foul creature for whom there is no place between the living.

[@lauraanne5175]

@@pauliussvirskas6734 As a Luciferian, I wholeheartedly disagree with you. Maybe you approached him wrong? Or had fear when you encountered him. I truly wish you the best and hope one day you might try again with a better outcome.

[@100Servings]

Good gravy, Tony! I've never heard such succinct and logically justified explanations of greed! You completely described not only what it is, but isn't, and made the case for charity and hypocrisy! I had to stop what I was doing and devote my entire attention to your work! Brilliant. Simply brilliant. These videos get better every time. Thank you!

[@Tony4You]

Wow thanks a ton for this comment! Talking about the sin itself is probably my favorite segments of these demon prince videos, and I'm so glad people are enjoying and taking away good messages from it.

[@lauraanne5175]

@@Tony4You When you are only focused on the sin itself you are turning the demons into one dimensional christian bogie men. There is so much more depth you seem to not understand or maybe care about.

[@LimitBreakr424]

Shadow Hearts (ps2) introduced me to Mammon all those years ago

[@Tony4You]

Peak game and peak demon, good choice

[@JesusMorales-ir5oj]

I enjoy learning about the history of the prince’s of hell great work

[@Tony4You]

Thanks! Eventually I will cover all of them and be sure to make a full compilation video

[@KuRRiiZMa]

"Not giving to the needy is greedy" - tony4socialism

[@Tony4You]

RED SUN IN THE SKY

[@ElmerSpuda]

Found the Mammonite.

[@meshelgally564]

its great to see a video describe a subject better than most preists

[@Tony4You]

Hey thanks! I try my best toe dive as deep as I can go

[@lauraanne5175]

That's not saying much

[@tinybee7780]

- Opens SMT wiki to see how Atlus portrayed Mammon - Shows picture of Okumura's shadow from P5 front and center Yep, basically sums up his personality so much. Though I would prefer Mammon themselves getting a new visual redesign to align with the other deadly sins. Also, I just saw it from one of the comments, but belated Happy Birthday Tony!

[@MegaPokefan97]

Considering the Shadow Bosses are labeled as "Given name, Prince of Hell, Surname" (For example "Kunikazu Mammon Okumura" "Suguru Asmodeus Kamoshida" "Junya Beal Kaneshiro")

[@R.J.Crimson99]

​@@MegaPokefan97 Wait fr? I only saw them as "Shadow (insert surname here)" and nothing more. I still believe that the Shadow Selves in Persona 5 are still considered demons though. Even Shadow Kamoshida refers to himself as a "demon" right before you start fighting him.

[@inarii_Othy]

Happy birthday tony!

[@Ushi_archive]

Wait it's his birthday?

[@inarii_Othy]

​@@Ushi_archiveyeah

[@Ushi_archive]

@@inarii_Othy how do yk

[@inarii_Othy]

@@Ushi_archive I'm in his discord

[@Ushi_archive]

@@inarii_Othy ohh okay

[@RwnEsper]

Great video as always Tony! I would love to see added sections where you explore these demons as portrayed in SMT and other games. I was thinking about the Mammon Machine from Chrono Trigger all episode.

[@lauraanne5175]

🤮🤮🤮Try reading a book or taking a course on demons.

[@danielm9753]

One of your best yet! Loved the background music - it was just hit after hit after hit.

[@Caribbean-Man]

fun fact: goat eyes arent inheretly demonic. their pupils are rectangular because they have wide vision to look out for predators from the perhiperal. another banger vid tony!

[@kakizakichannel]

Tony slowly becoming an epastor

[@Tony4You]

It's basically what I do at this point lol

[@BlackIronGamer]

@@Tony4You honestly you are more knowledgeable than most pastors I know

[@ICE_woomy]

These demon explanations are my favorite on KZbin 😍

[@Tony4You]

Thanks a lot! Really glad people enjoy the series

[@trot2amedia629]

What's that music playing during that Sin of Greed part?

[@tuckernutter]

I was for real waiting for a "In SMT/Persona" part towords the end. Im glad youre covering theology and mythology for its own sake. You've made me reflect on my actions I've made today.

[@NickOleksiakMusic]

This is a genuinely great explanation of greed! Fantastic as always, Tony 👏

[@Tony4You]

Thanks a ton brother!

[@NickOleksiakMusic]

@@Tony4You Heck yeah, dude!

[@keip4568]

nice Resident Evil/Biohazard safe room musics

[@Tony4You]

Gotta change up the music a little bit every now and again

[@theWarVet]

Always a pleasure to hear some silent hill in the background ambience.. means "we're not alone." (the silent majority... being heard at last.. let's pray "they" are ready.)

[@HavelsRing96]

Great video as always

[@Tony4You]

Thanks legend

[@tjtjmich16p]

Great video as always, I'm a new subscriber brw

[@Tony4You]

Thanks for watching, and I hope you keep enjoying the content!

[@abel8831]

He's Interesting enough to be featured more in SMT! They should give him new art based on his retro pixel art, like Angra Mainyu in Dx2

[@ChloeKatiePuppy]

What is the song that was playing in the first minute? Sounds really good

[@TheKHC]

Resident Evil Remake save room theme

[@orpheus_telos5317]

¡No seas mammon! Great video as always

[@theWarVet]

Great video's BTW, love em.. keep em coming brother and/or sister. (No one get's outta here alive.. most people seem to think they're gonna last forever.) "You can't take it with ya." I try to remind people.. though honestly it's only worth explaining when someone actively seeks the information.. I do love the almost absurd fact that "no matter how well you play the game, we all end the same." (at least physically.. obviously the soul moves on (or doesn't) based on how we live.

[@myboomstick-dx8sg]

Tony did his best not to say "Fame, Wealth, Power" in the beginning

[@joyfulfeb2074]

Thank you mammon for smooth process of payments 😊

[@Meatmangular]

What’s the music in the start?

[@heavymetalmixer91]

Gotta love that RE BGM.

[@ssage7808]

Great video! Was wondering wondering whether you or anyone else knew any good books on theology? Preferably not too academic

[@NightmareRex6]

wtf is the dog intrested in at 3:30? is that a pair of gloves or part of the clothes a scarf or what?

[@ShyGug]

I like your videos

[@Tony4You]

Hey thanks!

[@seth7726]

Mammon would definitely use Macca beam every turn, no doubt.

[@Tony4You]

Atlus, hire this man

[@KrimsonKattYT]

What's the song at the beginning? It uses Gaster's Theme!

[@TheKHC]

Resident Evil Remake save room theme

[@mammon679]

Hail Mammon

[@thanonyx]

"Oh look, it's the actual thing American Christians worship. Sincerely, an American Christian that DOESN'T worship Mammon" All jokes aside though I am loving your videos and the demons that represent the 7 deadly sins.

[@pichugirl6]

It's funny how that out of most of the demons that represent the deadly sins, Atlus doesn't even make Mammon be a common appearance in the main line series when compared to say Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub, Asmodeus and even Belphegor. I had to look up if Mammon appears in any Atlus games, and the only mainline ones he appears in is SMT2 and SMT IF, outside of the meaning of every boss you fight in Persona 5. Heck, I'm fully sure if he's even a recruit-able demon or just meant to be a boss in any appearance he's in.

[@mickeydougal]

This is really good information. I've been considering the subject of mammon lately. I never really understood it as a demon/personality, but as a concept or a mindset. Your open describes it as the pursuit of "wealth, influence or power." I would only push back slightly, as power and influence are essentially the same thing. I describe mammon as the pursuit of wealth, power, and fame/popularity. None of them are inherently evil. But pursuit of any of the 3 of them at the expense of virtue and righteousness is evil. I call money, power and fame the unholy trinity of mammon. Great video. I'm now subscribed.

[@M05tly]

Surely greed can be succinctly described as to want more than you need?

[@mickeydougal]

@@M05tly not necessarily. The desire for abundance so you can share it with others who need it is not greed.

[@herobrinesblog]

You'd love to read the book of Ben'Sira, it has a passage about how you should never lend rich people money, as you'll never see it back. In another passage, it advises not to give friends, family and others power over your things, for they might leave your will and testament empty for your family to inherit.

[@jacopoarmini7889]

I think that Gustave from smt V would have been perfect as Mammon, his design just fits, I don't know why they made him some random merchant

[@bradleys6646]

Is there no demon in SMT for Mammon?

[@judsongaiden9878]

4:41 So should people not seek to become professional chefs? Should restaurants even exist? Is it okay to be a chef as long as you make only low-quality food? Is it okay to run a restaurant as long as it serves only low-quality food? 6:51 Wait, wait, wait. What does GOVERNMENT have to do with SELF-enrichment? Isn't the primary function of government to force people to act against their own rational self-interest to serve the so-called "greater good?" Or am I being too Randian in my thinking? 7:11 Isn't that collectivism? Wouldn't that sort of "altruism" make everyone a parasite? Everyone would be the oppressor of everyone. Not that materialism is good. There are more than two options. Materialism often means sacrificing one's own individual freedom in favor of tedious banality. 7:21 That sounds good on paper, but what about planning for the future? What about allocating resources for future use? Should that really be classified as "hoarding" or does it fall within the purview of what they used to call "prudence?" 8:05 Caesar didn't earn that money, though. He expropriated it because he was a predatory parasite. Taxation is theft. 8:15 If that's true, then why should be bother working? If nothing is truly ours, yet we labor, then that makes us both slaves and tenants. We're born into a prison of endless misery, all punishment and no reward no matter what we do, even though none of us asked to exist.

[@tweaktastick7718]

Never any love for Pazuzu and the other Mesopotamian demons🤧

[@franksturino9129]

Explains a lot of what's happening today

[@kodakazu8]

At first I thought the thumbnail said Pot of Greed

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

Wow! Is that Jo Mammon from the computer game Like A Canadian 😂

[@Chrys4l1s]

I thought greed and avarive were different things and wondered why there weren't 8 deadly sins💀

[@Tony4You]

According to most theological books they are synonyms, though they can be used at different times depending on the context. Overall I'd say they are synonyms

[@eduardobarros3986]

Greed is the desire to own more things. Avarice is stubornly refusing to part with what you alreadly have. At least, that's how I understand it.

[@luistrejo3326]

Huh you never describe them as in SMT.

[@Tony4You]

Making a little bit of a departure for some videos since there are plenty of demons that don't appear in video games as much and still deserve to be talked about

[@ToastyRoyale]

Out of curiosity, beyond the association with food and money respectively, how would you differentiate gluttony and greed? Both seem to be a desire for excess of material things.

[@DaFlyingSeal]

I’d say greed harms others while gluttony harms oneself

[@Tony4You]

Gluttony is indirect harm to others and direct harm to you, while greed is direct harm to others and indirect harm to you. Greed is much more insidious as too many people cross the line of self interest to downright avarice

[@DaFlyingSeal]

@@Tony4You I see

[@alejandroreyes8878]

Fun fact: In latin america the word "mam*n" (I'm censoring it because YT) is used as an insult, more often to describe a pretentious, greedy or uptight person

[@parkernotman8865]

Demons don’t own hell, they are doomed to hell

[@Bruhsaurus-Moment]

The Hell we see as theirs is what I interpret as the Demon Realm, and the Hell described by God and His Son from the scriptures is the real Hell where irredeemables and devils end up for their crimes on humanity, nature, and God.

[@langerd6711]

This isn’t real to begin with…

[@parkernotman8865]

what tells you so? @@langerd6711

[@younesakdah1803]

No reference to SMT if... Mammon? Ahw...

[@ravellxivrobinson4979]

Leopold 2nd of belgium was the real-life version.

[@diavolo5997]

Lucifuge being the creator of Macca could make him interchangable with Mammon

[@Glory-to-GOD89]

nice channel fond it today

[@arandomgamerwithideas3257]

I just noticed that SMT wasn’t mention at any point in the video, I like it. Seems like a natural evolution of the breakdown videos from religious figures in the games to religious figures in general.

[@vikorovstock2432]

Nah, that card is far too complicated for such a short video.

[@keip4568]

People are already greedy as is, now for a God.

[@ChristianEdwards-i9r]

Nope. It never said it's name. But it pointed it's finger in each cardinal direction and it sounded like the wind followed the direction it pointed. Keep in mind, I was on drugs. But I could hear the wind blow every time it pointed. I've done some research and Pazuzu fits the bill the closest.

[@Cody-e4j]

What does smt mean?

[@SeantheDracunyan76]

Shin megami tensei which is Japanese for new goddess reincarnation

[@z00ted43]

also it means play nocturne

[@SeantheDracunyan76]

Or smtV or smt apocalypse, devil survivor or imagine or if your really lucky to find the two raidou games or if really really lucky SMT 1 or 2

[@SeantheDracunyan76]

And thats not including demi kids, persona , DX2 and devil summoner or jack bros

[@SeantheDracunyan76]

@@z00ted43 so yeah theres great ones and nocturne is only just one of them

[@redjirachi1]

Even in the Hellaverse Mammon is still a total tool

[@kanna-san.]

He appeared in Destiny Child. (RIP)

[@TheKHC]

Youuu promised my son freeee robux

[@Tony4You]

We'll handle the bobux situation... in private

[@Galvorn11]

This guy sounds like SsethTzeentach

[@Tony4You]

I get that a lot lol

[@Ushi_archive]

Early! 🎉🎉🎉

[@Tony4You]

Day 1 gang always come through

[@tendtherabbits5412]

I hope Jesus didn't count my SMT collection as part of the distraction.

[@disturbedrebirth]

Mamon and mamona mean very diferent things in spanish.

[@dialaskisel5929]

...But what if they are REALLY nice shoes...

[@vikorovstock2432]

You'll be the envy of the fourth circle.

[@alejandroreyes8878]

Fun fact, in Latin America the word mamon is an insult to refer to a greedy, uptight, pretentious or self righteous person If someone acts like they're better than you, usually rich folk, that's the insult you use

[@cgcurctct8ccottccricorc8rc86]

No smt section in the vid :(

[@deatho0ne587]

You asking for likes, subscribes and comments seems very mammon of you.

[@Elite_Teach]

First

[@Tony4You]

Legend of the early gang

[@zepherillas2222]

Why you gotta make everything political, this woke anti capitalism isn't what my lord and savior preach (This comment is satirical)

[@cdnairn3367]

Yeah U see MAMMON ? ZELENSKY

[@marlonthemightysmith7836]

If you are wealthly christ expects you to give 2 poor. Flawed sinful thinking smh

[@cgcurctct8ccottccricorc8rc86]

10:39 lmao u broke af

[@DanteCrowlley]

The first jew

[@Bruhsaurus-Moment]

The first happy evil merchant.

[@megansturino]

life is roblox

[@Tony4You]

TRUE!

[@parkernotman8865]

Jesus is the way the truth and the life, no one gets to the father except through him Don’t be fooled, if you haven’t accepted Christ you will NOT inherit the kingdom, turn to the lord and repent and you WILL be forgiven, eternal life is knowing Christ

[@KinKon-oi4dx]

@parkernotman8865 Repent and just worship God alone

[@dantemustdie00]

Mammon only appeared in ONE fucking game (SMT if...) and never again, such a waste