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Karen Armstrong Quotes

«Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.»
«Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.»
«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.»
«There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.»
«At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.»
«Compassion is not a popular virtue.»
«A Short History of Myth.»
«And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.»
«It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.»
«It all depends on the weather. We're doubting a large number this year because the rivers aren't frozen.»

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