A 'Case For God' - Science & World Religions (Karen Armstrong on Fresh Air with Terry Gross)

[Dover]

An interesting interview on World Religions throughout history to present and discusses how science and religion have shaped our perspectives on God.

A former nun, Karen Armstrong left her convent in the late 1960s, and for 13 years she distanced herself from organized religion. She ended up working in television, and on an assignment in Jerusalem she had a kind of epiphany about the similarities among the major world religions. It was the study of those religions that allowed her to revisit her own faith.

Armstrong published her first book, Through the Narrow Gate, in 1982. Twenty-seven years and more than 20 books later — including the best-selling A History of God — Armstrong releases her latest book, The Case for God. In it, she argues that religion is a practical discipline that teaches us to discover new capacities of the mind and heart.


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112968197

[WCGreen]

1. I just got done reading the Evolution of God and it traced the idea

of how the concept of god came to be.

[imdjh]

2. This was about how fundamentalism (and atheism )came to be

[WCGreen]

3. I listened and to me it covered a lot of the same ground.,

I am intrigued but I will wait for the trade edition.

[rd_kent]

6. Is there a connection between atheism and fundamentalism?

I assume you are referring to religious fundamentalism. If so, please explain.

[NotTheist]

4. Wack Job

She is an obvious wack job.

Request your local bookstores no longer carry such smut.

[Nihil]

5. Just on the off-chance ...

... that you're capable of reading, have a look at some of Karen Armstrong's
books when you get the chance ... you will find that, contrary to your dumb
knee-jerk response ("an obvious wack job"), she approaches the subject in
a fair and educated manner.

> Request your local bookstores no longer carry such smut.

The only person I know who described Armstrong's "History of God" as "smut"
was a seriously disturbed evangelical ... just saying ...
:shrug:

[rd_kent]

7. You should read "how to make friends and influence people" instead.

Enjoy your stay.....