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

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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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We are punished by our sins, not for them. – Elbert Hubbard

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There are fundamentalist psychopaths in every religion in the world. Every single one. – Sophia Bush

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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat. – Huston Smith

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You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. – John Ruskin

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Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. – Thomas Jefferson

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