 However, another obstacle to a proper life of faith for Kierkegaard was the kind of worldliness to be found in his contemporaries, for which he claimed that Luther needed to take a more direct responsibility, insofar as he had allowed the Reformation to become a political programme (see Kierkegaard KJP: 3, frag. 2469 [p. 66, 1848]), and had also presented an account of social orders as a model of Christian life, which had been taken up by Hegelians and others as an ethic of vocation. For Kierkegaard, this had led to a relation between the religious on the one hand and the ethical and social on the other that tended to reduce the former to the latter, and which he sought to challenge in his own more radical conception of their relation, which could include the Christian having to live at odds with any social order, and suffering exclusion from it as a result—or at the very least, active faith may require feeling distanced from the world, while living within it. Again, while Kierkegaard acknowledges that Luther may have intended something  similar,[29]  the result of his teachings had led people in a different direction; as Sløk puts it: 