Where justice is denied where poverty is enforced where ignorance prevails and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress rob and degrade them neither persons nor property will be safe.

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

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Internationalism is a community theory of society which is founded on economic spiritual and biological facts. It maintains that respect for a healthy development of human society and of world civilization requires that mankind be organized internationally.

The working class owes all honor and respect to the first men who planted the standard of labor solidarity on the hostile frontier of unorganized industry.

I just think Texas and that whole Bible Belt section is so like corporate. And I don't agree with organized religion in that respect.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Organized religion provides a model of the way all organizations from the state down to the village garden club end a price in terms of a member's freedom of thought and action.

I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need.