Mary Douglas's Quote - It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in s

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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in s

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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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 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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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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It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. – Helen Keller

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If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But were man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be. – Ziggy Marley

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Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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