Chapter 1 The Religion of Greed and its Impact on African Americans As christian counselors, we are confronted with a constant barrage of institutional conflicts which negatively affect the culture of black Americans and causes disunity. Decisions that are specific in uniting the culture is no easy task. History reveals that since the days of colonial America, Black Americans have tried to overcome economic hardship without being victimized by greed. But Greed, that awful beast, and its destructive tentacles in its worst of ways and terms, have caused chaos and destruction for so many. This Greed and the Demi-Gods who manipulate it ,have dismantled the true purpose of society. In this entire world and the known universe, there is nothing else like Black-on-Black crime. Nothing else in this hemisphere will touch its gruesome acts, in fact, in these known cosmos there is nothing more devastating. As you read this book, pray the the Holy Spirit will lead your heart into the workbook.The purpose is to help one overcome the final act of internalized religion. The religion of Greed has caused the Cognitive Retrogressions Affecting Black Society ( CRABS ), which destructive forces are far greater than the atomic bomb. Thus we have begun a process which hopefully others will follow by investing some positive flow into someones life, while dismantled, and getting rid of the CRABS, Idolatry,greed,the new religion.