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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."
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"You think that if you blame, you will then be free of those problems, but blame cements you to your problems."
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"Maybe it ain't about others' mistakes,but only your need for someone to blame."
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"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery."
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"Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos."
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"Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims."
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"And just so you know-that winter forest we walked into first? That was from Through the Looking Glass too. Hey, if you're going to saddle me with the blame for your overconsumption, at least get the book right."
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"Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism."
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"The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs."
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"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
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"It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame."
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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."
Religion
"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."
Religion
"Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day."
Day
"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
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"Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver."
Change
"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
Science
"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."
Life
"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."
Society
"Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history."
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"It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure."
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