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.

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

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.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.