Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
Mary Douglas
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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
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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?
- Mary Douglas