The zeitgeist/ethic of the age is power/knowledge. By pushing economics fully out of its religious connections it gave it the mixed blessing of modernity (religion of course has always had its own problems with power because the current zeitgeist not unlike the current monetary and financial paradigm has been with us since at least the last mega paradigm change from hunting and gathering to agriculture).

The only way mankind will truly progress is if the religionists and the scientists BOTH recognize the natural philosophical concept of grace and begin to conscientiously apply its unitary and ethical aspects to themselves and to their systems.

Too simple for the intellectual vanities of the erudite, too powerful to be denied if one self actualizes it.