Articles by Karen Armstrong

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The Myth of Religious Violence
Karen Armstrong, tricycle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Mar 2015

Modern Society Has Made a Scapegoat of Faith

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The Myth of Religious Violence
Karen Armstrong – The Guardian, 29 Sep 2014

The popular belief that religion is the cause of the world’s bloodiest conflicts is central to our modern conviction that faith and politics should never mix. But the messy history of their separation suggests it was never so simple.

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DO UNTO OTHERS
Karen Armstrong – The Guardian, 15 Nov 2008

World Religions Too Often Seem Predicated on Prejudice, When Their True Roots Lie in Compassion The practice of compassion is central to every one of the major world religions – but sometimes you would never know it. Instead, religion is associated with violence, intolerance and seems more preoccupied by dogmatic or sexual orthodoxy. People don’t […]

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