"We have to come to terms with the fact that our institutions religious and otherwise tend to ossify into these totalitarian structures... they're trying to point to something beyond that... but they degenerate and ossify.

But then we have to go underneath that too, if we're going to get our criticisms right, because as terrified as it's reasonable to be about religious sectarianism and totalitarianism, it's also necessary to remember that chimpanzees go on raiding parties and and kill the neighboring tribe. They're not motivated by religious concerns. To put that at the feet of religion, even implicitly... and I understand why that's an impulse, but it doesn't face the problem deeply enough, and it also obscures a potential solution." - Jordan Peterson