The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

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

I am sure it must be true that people opt out of the mainstream society because they feel that there are going to be no rewards for them, if they stay.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.

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.