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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.
— Mary Douglas
Tags: theory, bias, organization, culture

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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.
— Mary Douglas
Tags: society, religion, god, good
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?
— Mary Douglas
Tags: religion, you, music, love
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
— Mary Douglas
Tags: true, feel, growth, science
It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.
— Mary Douglas
Tags: religions, more, will, i-am
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.
— Mary Douglas
Tags: achieve, difficult, real, equality
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