Morton 23: "Religion [is] a conspiracy theory (Fall narratives, for instance) that provide a reason for the weird palpations and shifty affiliations, the illusory play and physical intensity of the symbiotic real"
25: "Explosive holism whispers in our ear that religious communion is precisely what solidarity means, because social space is greater than the sum of its parts. And this only works if we cleave in some sense to agricultural religion. And agricultural religion is one of the most basic ways in which agricultural society talks about itself"
22: "Agricultural society must be kept together, precisely because of the obvious ways in which, as soon as it starts up, it causes social space to be torn apart: patriarchy, hierarchy, desertification."
contrast against Morton's "esoteric mandalas"
26: "The struggle for solidarity with nonhumans must therefore include a struggle against the agricultural-age religion that still structures our world"