Mary Douglas

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the…

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe…

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to…

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in…

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society…

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under…

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The…

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability…

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in…

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm…

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes…

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely…

Mormons… are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is…

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions…