Quote by Karen Armstrong
There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as theres bad

There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as theres bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too. – Karen Armstrong

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The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith. – Karen Armstrong

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Faith
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Every fundamentalist movement Ive studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion. – Karen Armstrong

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Religion
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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

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Failure
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Religion
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience. – Saint Ambrose

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Religion

A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. – Latin Proverb

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Religion

There is a story, which is fairly well known, about when the missionaries came to Africa. They had the Bible and we, the natives, had the land. They said “Let us pray,” and we dutifully shut our eyes. When we opened them, why, they now had the land and we had the Bible. – Desmond M. Tutu, “Religious Human Rights and the Bible”

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Religion

I think that we are at a point in our country where were trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena. – Nikki Haley

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Religion

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