“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.”
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
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.
Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.