“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.” WantDoeCommunitySweetHarmVengeful Author:Mary Douglas
“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.” NeedsDoeRealDifficultAchieveMembersEqualityFrustratedDistributionFrustratingRevisionMonitoring Author:Mary Douglas
“Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.” WayDoeEqualityInequalityCoordination Author:Mary Douglas
“I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.” YearsDoeTodayFeltCivilizationHarmReligion Today Author:Mary Douglas
