Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
Mary Douglas
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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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.
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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.
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
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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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It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian.. Or is it? I am not at all sure.
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