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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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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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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I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay. – Mary Douglas

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I have my own religion. Im sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish. – Tom T. Hall

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The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. – Robert Rainy

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If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. – Voltaire

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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their fathers religion, if they can find out what it is. – Charles Lamb

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Time! the corrector when our judgments err. – Lord Byron

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