Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

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

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.

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

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

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