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Mary Douglas

"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."

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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."

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

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Mary Douglas
"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

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Mary Douglas
"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?"

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Mary Douglas
"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."

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Mary Douglas
"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."

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Mary Douglas
"I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good."

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Mary Douglas
"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."

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Mary Douglas
"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."

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Mary Douglas
"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."

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Mary Douglas
"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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Aberjhani

"Look to the Lord and the power of His grace."

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Aberjhani

"I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth."

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Aberjhani

"Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent."

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Aberjhani

"Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by their own choice."

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Aberjhani

"One of the reasons God did not make a lover for Himself when He made one for Adam is because He knew that fewer people would take Him seriously once He had an ex."

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Aberjhani

"A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."

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Aberjhani

"All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test-if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit."

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Aberjhani

"Religion comes not where reign fundamentalism and authoritarianism."

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Aberjhani

"Soul winning for Christ Jesus is a great business everyone must endeavor to start and keep it diligently."

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Aberjhani

"Religion is a set of rituals."

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