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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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Mary Douglas
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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. – Mary Douglas

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Equality
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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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Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. – John Henrik Clarke

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I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It wont be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current. – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion. – Gene Robinson

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I started listening to and playing other music in the 90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again. – Dee Dee Ramone

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