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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has b

Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage. – Karen Armstrong

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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith – even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity. – Karen Armstrong

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Faith
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem. – Karen Armstrong

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Religion
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions. – Karen Armstrong

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Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue. – Honore de Balzac

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Since my retirement, Ive spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just cant afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. – Charles Kuralt

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I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society. – Charles Rangel

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One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesnt work on this mirror principle, you dont have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesnt work that way. – Thomas Frank

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I prefer to think of them as the Ten Suggestions. – Author Unknown

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