They aren't about to take off their shoes and feel holy ground. They aren't about to reach out and touch the hem of Jesus' garment. They aren't about to greet their neighbor with a holy kiss. While political and theological conservatives were busy worrying about the poorly funded, always timid United Nations, global capitalism snuck in and crowned itself. It's power with a vengeance, money in pursuit of money, violence begetting violence.
Global capitalism has no time for touch.
To touch is to link soul to soul, flesh to flesh, heart to heart. That creates a different set of values, a different aura, a radically different mentality that doesn't fit with working for yourself and destroying whom you will. To touch and be touched doesn't fit with individual self-sufficiency. It doesn't fit with exploitation on a rampage. In fostering a mentality of winners and losers, global capitalism does its best to keep poor folk pressed to the ground.