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Karen Armstrong
English
Writer
About the author
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.
Karen Armstrong,
English
Writer
#Success
#Death
#Christianity
#Man
#Religion
#Islam
#Dying
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.
Karen Armstrong,
English
Writer
#Art
#Religion
#Sex
#Cooking
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.
Karen Armstrong,
English
Writer
#Nothing
#Years
#Reading
#Religion
#Religious
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.
Karen Armstrong,
English
Writer
#Success
#Strength
#Failure
#Islam
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.
Karen Armstrong,
English
Writer
#Love
#Leading
#Muslim
#France
#Beginning
#Countries
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong,
English
Writer
#Popular
#Virtue
#Compassion
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.
Karen Armstrong,
English
Writer
#Christianity
#Society
#Religion
#Islam
#Liberal
#Judaism
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
Karen Armstrong,
English
Writer
#Democracy
#Friends
#states
#United
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.
Karen Armstrong,
English
Writer
#Nature
#Eagles
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.
Karen Armstrong,
English
Writer
#Now
#Religion
The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.
Karen Armstrong,
English
Writer
#World
#Islam
#Values