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Karen Armstrong religion

Karen Armstrong | religion

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.

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Karen Armstrong religion

Karen Armstrong | religion

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don’t want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.

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Karen Armstrong poetry

Karen Armstrong | poetry

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

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Karen Armstrong Nature

Karen Armstrong | nature

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.

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Karen Armstrong learning

Karen Armstrong | learning

We have domesticated God’s transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

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Karen Armstrong knowledge

Karen Armstrong | knowledge

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

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Karen Armstrong knowledge

Karen Armstrong | knowledge

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

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Karen Armstrong | imagination

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

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Karen Armstrong | home

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

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Karen Armstrong | god

We have domesticated God’s transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

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