“’I don’t think God cares whether you get rich,’ he warned the crowd. ‘I don’t think he hopes that your business will make a huge profit. I know a lot of religious people who think God will intervene to make their investments grow. Or he’ll get them a promotion. To make their business a success.’”

If only Romney used this realization to recognize that the nation’s wealth should not be obsessively hoarded by him and his peers, but ought to be used constructively for the good of everyone.