Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

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

Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations and even occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no existence without the rites of friendship. Social rituals create a reality which would be nothing without them.

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

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