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

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.

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

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

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

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

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.