Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.

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

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

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.

Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.

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?