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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. – Mary Douglas

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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other. – Mary Douglas

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Equality
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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. – Mary Douglas

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Science
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Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. – Mary Douglas

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I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted. – Luke Ford

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Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it. РDiderot, Pens̩es philosophiques, 1746

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Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. – Swami Sivananda

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Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, wheres the harm? September 11th changed all that. – Richard Dawkins

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Ill always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life Ill sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when Im not there, but Ill always come back. – Steve Jobs

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when god decided to invent everything he took one reath bigger than a circustent and everything began – e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

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