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.

Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

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?

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.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

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

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