"I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay."
-Mary Douglas
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"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.“
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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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"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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"It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements."
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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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"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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"Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts."
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"The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development."
-John Desmond Bernal
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"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
-John Desmond Bernal
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