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It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized re

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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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. – 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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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. – Mary Douglas

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The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion. – Pope Shenouda III

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The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion. – Michael Behe

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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. – Louis Aragon

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My first memories of religion were being taken to Episcopal church. My father was Catholic, but my mother, I believe, was Episcopal. So I sort of veered off into the watered-down version of Catholicism. – Marilyn Manson

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