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" An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism. "
Terrorism
Lead
May
" Any great organization can go through sectarian phases. "
Phases
Great
Through
" Behind a leader there must be followers, but they should always be on the lookout for the main chance and ready to change sides if the current leader doesn't deliver. "
Chance
Ready
Leader
" Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off. "
Threat
Tense
Life
" 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. "
More
Economy
Year
" Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day. "
Day
Present
Much
" Hierarchy works well in a stable environment. "
Environment
Stable
Well
" I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too. "
I Am
Alone
Living
" I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay. "
People
Be True
I Am
" If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny. "
Leadership
Thought
Want
" If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. "
Change
Culture
Start
" I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good. "
Civilization
Religion
Today
" Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination. "
Sure
Way
Bad
" Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other. "
Information
Survive
You
" Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power. "
Islam
Power
Always
" 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. "
God
Society
Religion
" It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements. "
Organized
More
Done
" It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat. "
Growth
True
Feel
" It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure. "
Will
I Am
Organized
" 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. "
Difficult
Religion
Society
" Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command. "
Rules
Think
Strong
" Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place. "
Place
Community
You
" Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive. "
Moral
Destructive
Superiority
" 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. "
Difficult
Real
Equality
" 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? "
People
Religion
Music
" Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. "
Stability
Relationships
More
" Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history. "
Arguing
History
Human
" The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting. "
Go
History
Rome
" 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. "
Strong
Black And White
Black
" The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization. "
Organization
Culture
Bias
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