I work with an almost completely conservative office. Everyone gives to their church or to church sponsored charities. They look at anything of a different religion as "quaint" at best and horribly immoral at worst. Their attitude of kind condenscention towards anyone not tithing and making over $100,000 a year annoys me to no end, especially when they view that those with wealth and/ or power are automatically better people deserving better treatment than the Average Joe.
What I see happening these days in our country is that wealth confers a king of "nobility" to those who hold it. The rich are seen as better, smarter, and more deserving of a second chance, the benefit of the doubt, tax breaks, preferential treatment, ad nauseum. We're backsliding towards what our founding fathers fled their homelands to escape. America abhorred the idea of a monarchy and God Given leader status in it's government but now we are inviting that same attitude back slowly, piece by piece with our actions and our apathy.