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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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. – Karen Armstrong

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Imagination
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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

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Religion
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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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Home
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I think its perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. – Dean Koontz

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I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion. – Andrew Greeley

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The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear? – Bible

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I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire. – Peter Jennings

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