Quote by Daniel Bell
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the instituti

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults. – Daniel Bell

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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. – Daniel Bell

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Just as the Russians and the Soviets didnt manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared. – Jeane Kirkpatrick

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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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Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost. – Joyce Carol Oates

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Oh, theres going to be debate because youre dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue. – Pam Grier

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