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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organ

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. – Mary Douglas

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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside? – Mary Douglas

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Jealousy
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Mary Douglas
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Mormons… are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. – Mary Douglas

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Equality
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Mary Douglas
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. – Mary Douglas

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alone
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The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. – Edward Teller

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Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope. – Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends, 1972

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Science

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into. – Michael P. Anderson

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Science

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. – Samuel Alexander

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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society. – Joseph Ratzinger

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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order. – Asa Gray

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You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty. – Cecil Baxter

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