THAT RELIGION WHICH IS ONLY A MEANS TO WORLDLY WELL - BEING IS NOT RELIGION - IT IS SHEER BLASPHEMY AGAINST GOD

If there is any truth this movement has to disseminate, any need it is born to supply, soon will condemnation be changed into praise, and contempt converted into love. People in these days are apt to take up religion as a means to some social or political end. Beware of this. Religion is its own end. That religion which is only a means to worldly well-being is not religion, whatever else it may be; and it is sheer blasphemy against God and man to hold that man has no other end than the free and full enjoyment of all the pleasure of his senses.

- Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 4/Writings: Prose/On Professor Max Müller