Contrary to the dominant asceticism of the past few thousand years, Christianity is a world-loving religion, and not one based on dismissing, fleeing, or distancing itself from the world. A church which claims to be opposed to the world is fundamentally alienating itself from God's prodigious creativity at the heart of creation. Little wonder that many people today are abandoning the church.
— Diarmuid O'Murchu, Quantum Theology