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Even in their social idealism, the modern religions fall far short of Christianity. "Social justice, democracy and world peace are no doubt well enough in their way," but they are at best "fragments" and, often, "secularized substitutes for the Christian hope." It is unrealistic to think that political and administrative machinery can weld mankind into "a rationalized mass without first transforming [it] into a fellowship." Here again a substitute religion has too limited a goal, hardly the advance on Christianity that it hoped to be. Concludes Author Casserley: "Surpassed Christianity indeed! We have none of us yet caught up with it!"