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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
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.
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.
The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
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?
What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
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.
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them. It is not too much to say that ritual is more to society than words are to thought. For it is very possible to know something and then find words for it. But it is impossible to have social relations without symbolic acts.
Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.
The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall.
If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
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.
