Some Scholars Have Been Arguing

It Is Very Reasonable To Worry About The Harm Done By Organized Religion, And To Prefer Looser And More Private Arrangements.

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.

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.

If People Want To Compete For Leadership Of A Religious Group, They Can Compete In Piety. A Chilling Thought. Or Funny.

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.