Ironically, Del, Dylan Thomas is the one Welshman I have time for, and the poem you quote is surely one of the masterpieces of the English langauge....

Anyway, Christianity Today has posted an interesting, albeit brief, blog on the prosperity doctrine: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/137/41.0.html.  Got me thinking, so here's a bit of `rage, rage against the dying of the light'