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Danh ngôn của Mary Douglas (Sứ mệnh: 1)

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?
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
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.
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
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.
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
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 you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.