Mary Douglas

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. ↗

— 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

#does #felt #good #harm #i

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#compete #funny #group #leadership #people

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#coordination #does #downside #equality #get

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#egalitarian #had #islam #power #principle

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

#does #god #good #harm #image

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#arrangements #done #harm #looser #more

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

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. ↗

— Mary Douglas

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