Hierarchy Works Well In A Stable Environment.

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.

Enclave Life Becomes Very Tense, Even When They Do Elect A Leader, The Factions Remain, With The Threat Of Splitting Off.

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.

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.

I Have Increasingly, Over The Years, Felt That Religion Today Does Our Civilization More Harm Than Good.