“If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.”
— Mary Douglas
Author: Mary Douglas
Category: leadership
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Religion can make it worse. Are you
“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
Author: Mary Douglas
Category: religion
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It is only partly True that religion
“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
Author: Mary Douglas
Category: religion
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Religion can make it worse. Are you
“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
Author: Mary Douglas
Category: jealousy
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It is very reasonable to worry about
“It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.”
— Mary Douglas
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Category: religion
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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve,
“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.”
— Mary Douglas
Author: Mary Douglas
Category: equality
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Inequality can have a bad downside, but
“Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.”
— Mary Douglas
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Category: equality
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Just in our lifetime our society has
“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
Author: Mary Douglas
Category: religion
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Mormons… are so strong, they can handle
“Mormons… are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.”
— Mary Douglas
Author: Mary Douglas
Category: equality
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It seems True that the growth of
“It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.”
— Mary Douglas
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Category: science
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Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile,
“Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.”
— Mary Douglas
Author: Mary Douglas
Category: marriage
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