In heaven, according to the book of Revelation, the streets are paved with gold and the walls are encrusted with jewels. The myth persists in some quarters that the Christian church resembles that sort of heaven on earth. Tales of untold wealth are propagated even by churchmen. The late Episcopal bishop James A. Pike once wrote wildly in Playboy that the Society of Jesus owned 51% of the Bank of America. Eugene Carson Blake, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, has predicted that tax-sheltered churches would some day be able to control the entire U.S. economy.
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