Conrad Pepler, quoted by Dan Nichols in The Vigil Machine and Other Atrocities:
The nature of religion springs from our dependence upon God the Creator and the Lover of persons. But man has himself interposed so many “middle men” or middle things between God and man that the essential dependence is mostly not felt and quite forgotten. The dependence he experiences today is a dependence upon machinery and markets, upon “production” rather than upon living growth. For this reason it has been rightly said that modern industrialized man is not so much a materialist, for he shows no respect for the material universe, but rather is impious in the true sense of the word, having turned away from the Father with a sweeping act of impiety. He has no god but himself, and the graven images he has made of metal and plastic.
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