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Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#body #call #cathedrals #each #finger

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

— Mary Douglas

#feel #growth #made #organized #science

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#get #i #i am #more #organized

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

#bogged #command #confident #defined #down

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#best #completely #democratic #democratic government #fulfills

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#better #better place #community #each #everybody

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

#believe #encouraged #frustration #grand #jealousy

The president is here, strong and firm as a monkey's tail. ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#here #monkey #president #strong #tail

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#been #between #clash #history #human

What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#ever #injustice #just #madly #nation