Quote by Karen Armstrong
Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isnt nec

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isnt necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept. – Karen Armstrong

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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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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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We have domesticated Gods 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. – Karen Armstrong

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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. – Herbert Read

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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many. – Ulrich Beck

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Theres a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world. – Tim Heidecker

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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. – Elbert Hubbard

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