Quote by Karen Armstrong
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionat

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they dont want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. – Karen Armstrong

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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. – Karen Armstrong

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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. – Karen Armstrong

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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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And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or youre going to repeat it and if youre burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you dont get it, youre missing the whole point. – Michael Berryman

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Our religion is itself profoundly sad – a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each mans own language – so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. – Charles Baudelaire

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