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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 is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on. – Mary Douglas

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Religion
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Mary Douglas
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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. – Mary Douglas

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I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me. – Dwight L. Moody

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Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls. – William Pennington

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Both of my parents would say they were atheists, so where I inherited my connection to God I dont know. But its natural. No Bible, no Torah, just the love religion. – Lisa Bonet

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