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

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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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"Hierarchy works well in a stable environment."

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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?"

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"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."

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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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"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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"Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other."

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

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