The Bible: Socialist Manifesto! (Shhh...don't tell the conservative right.)

All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God's grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need. Acts 4: 32-35

Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. With his wife's full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles' feet. Acts 5: 1-2  
Both Ananias and Sapphira dropped dead directly because they held back money for themselves. Acts 5: 3-10

Safe to say that most Christians of means choose to ignore this passage.

God moonlights as a Mafia boss.

Then the Lord said to Moses, "When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the Lord a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them. Exodus 30:11-12

Sure he created billions of galaxies, each populated with billions of stars and billions of planets; but what God really wants is a kickback from a group of nomadic Bedouins. And thus, the world's first case of a protection money shakedown.