Friday, April 11, 2008

Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God

A History of Fundamentalism

"At all events, the hideous September [11] attacks show that when people begin to use religion to justify hatred and killing, and thus abandon the compassionate ethic of all the great world religions, they have embarked on a course that represents a defeat for faith."

A book I found and quoted into my journal while in Kuwait. I love this quote, and actually paraphrased it into a later entry concerning an Arabic Politician who said he'd wasted his time in his country's parliament and thought it might be time to try "something else." I'll hot-link the other entry when I key it in.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The information here is great. I will invite my friends here.

Thanks