our materialist point of view
eliminates divine and metaphysical
basis of moral order, instead
we are bound by a secular concern
with social and economic welfare

modern Christianity is made more appealing
by the promise of economic prosperity
as "other worldliness" fades
into the background

how "inconvenient" Christ is
with his rantings
about not being of this world

"I pray not for the world
but for them which thou
hast given me...
While I was in the world
I kept them in thy name...
they are not of the world
even as I am not of the world."
John 17:9-16