Some Scholars Have Been Arguing

If We Can Abstract Pathogenicity And Hygiene From Our Notion Of Dirt, We Are Left With The Old Definition Of Dirt As Matter Out Of Place. This Is A Very Suggestive Approach. It Implies Two Conditions: A Set Of Ordered Relations And A Contrevention Of That Order. Dirt Then, Is Never A Unique, Isolated Event. Where There Is Dirt There Is A System. Dirt Is The By-product Of A Systematic Ordering And Classification Of Matter, In So Far As Ordering Involves Rejecting Inappropriate Elements.

Any Great Organization Can Go Through Sectarian Phases.

I Am Convinced That Living In An Enclave Shapes The Personality, And Living Alone Shapes The Personality Too.

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.

The History Of The Church Of Rome Is A Constant Leakage Of Members Into Such Breakaway Cults, Which Go On Splitting.