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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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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. – 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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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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Religion is the idol of the mob it adores everything it does not understand. – Frederick II

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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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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion. – Thomas More

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion. – T. S. Eliot

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