Posts tagged “A History of God”
If only God hadn’t made women . . .
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: A religion which teaches men and women to regard their humanity as chronically flawed can alienate them from themselves. Nowhere is this alienation more evident than in the denigration of sexuality in general and women in particular. Even though Christianity had […]
Making space for God
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: In the New Testament, the Pharisees are depicted as whited sepulchres and blatant hypocrites. This is due to the distortions of first-century polemic. The Pharisees were passionately spiritual Jews. They believed that the whole of Israel was called to be a holy nation […]
Special snowflakes sure do kill a lot of innocent people
From Karen Armstrong’s A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: The Jews have often been criticized for their belief that they are the Chosen People, but their critics have often been guilty of the same kind of denial that fueled the diatribes against idolatry in biblical times. … Western Christians […]