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

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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

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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.

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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

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The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

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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?

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

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What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.

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Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

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An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Scientist

Born: March 25th, 1921

Died: May 16th, 2007

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