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Karen Armstrong
November 14, 1944 -
Nationality: English
Category: Writer
Subcategory: English Writer

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

   

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.

   

After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to curb this murderous bent that we have as human beings.

   

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.

   

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.

   

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.

   

The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

   

Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

   

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