Explanation:
Worldly values primarily concern basic human needs to survive and flourish: food, clothing and shelter. This means not only making sure you can pay for what's required, but also having something extra for luxuries and for security. The more anxious you are about life's risks and vicissitudes, the more you are likely to want to acquire and accumulate. It is a short step from this position to one fully embracing monetary values; giving them high, if not top, priority. Everyone would like to be rich.
It says, "In God We Trust". Why so?
In a materialist cultural environment, alongside wealth, power and celebrity are also given priority. The powerful need never go hungry. The famous need never go without. They have more than they require to survive and thrive. Those who are wealthy, powerful and famous can have more or less whatever they desire; and this is not always healthy.
Worldly values, driven by the profit motive and laws of supply and demand, come therefore to be essentially mercenary. They are divisive, result in the development of self-interest groups, and pit people into competition with each other. Some say this is a benefit, but it can be destructive. There are both unworthy winners and innocent losers.
Worldly values lead to shopping temptations.
Secular values are not themselves in any way reprehensible. They are good; but they easily decline towards being over-competitive, ego-driven and self-interested. Initially need-driven, they readily become greed-driven. The fear of threatened insufficiencies invests them with an urgency that ratchets up the pace of life, imbued with a kind of blindness for anything but the short-term goal.
