As Christ's ambassadors we cannot deny ourselves some intercourse with the worldly and the ungodly. But the peril arises when we absorb the spirit of Sodom, when we come to prefer economic advantages to moral and spiritual values, when we become engrossed with the pleasures of the world and catch the spirit of it, when we find more meaning to life in association with Sodom than with Jesus Christ. Then we have pitched our tent toward Sodom. When the desire comes to rise in the world, to allow ourselves to he compromised by evil influences, then we dwell too near the tents of wickedness. The word secularism embraces all of these factors.
Secularism is the domination of temporal things.
It does not necessarily deny the Christian faith. It requires that we live indifferently to it, that we spend our lives under some dominating interest other than faith in, and allegiance to, God. Ours is a secular and materialistic age. Many fail to realize what this secular philosophy is doing to us. In an affluent society, people need a lot of things and want a lot more.