Karen Armstrong ( 10 of 10 )
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, read more
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious read more
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.
A Short History of Myth.
A Short History of Myth.
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a read more
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from read more
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal read more
Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.
It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times read more
It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. read more
Clashes and vitriol only make it worse. I think what we must learn to do is to read the imagery. We need to analyze and understand the subtext.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted read more
At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.
