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Quote by Mary Douglas
Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more privat

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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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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Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. – Mary Douglas

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Marriage
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If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. – Mary Douglas

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funny
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Religion
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More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material. – Charles Eastman

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Religion

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life. – Andrew Greeley

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Religion

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know. – Christopher Hitchens

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Religion

Nothing has done more to separate and divide human beings one from another than exclusivist organized religion. – Neale Donald Walsch

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Religion

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