The Enlightenment philosophers had tried to counter the intolerance and bigotry that they associated with “religion†by promoting the equality of all human beings, together with democracy, human rights, and intellectual and political liberty, modern secular versions of ideals which had been promoted in a religious idiom in the past. – Karen Armstrong in “The Myth of Religious Violence” I Continue Reading
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Blog post:More on “religious violence”; how “importing” (and specifically “accommodation”) gets done : http://t.co/MSkrSttYF0
If the wars of religion had been solely motivated by sectarian bigotry, we should not expect to have found Protestants and Catholics fighting on the same side, yet in fact they often did so. via The myth of religious violence | Karen Armstrong | World news | The Guardian. There was as yet no coherent way to divide religious causes Continue Reading
Closedd it on @Kindle device to go to PC app, but when the book on Carousel now shows 54% again, I had to check PC to see if it knows.
Today my @Kindle went way back in my book and insists this is the furthest read spot (was at over 50% and now is at 14%).
@dlturn Dave, majority of your “points” of late seem to end in your assessment that I am screwed up. Tried to start off on diff subject
@dlturn I belkieve we even covered the idea of difference between “seeing” a point and agreeing with the destination/use of that point
@dlturn one can hear and undertand an argument and not agree with the assesment or analysis
@dlturn if you want to redo an argument, I believe I SEE your point(s). dont agree with your conclusions. That OK?
seen anything yet about James Risen book I mentoned eartlier?
@dlturn if you recall, I only asked you how you feel when I say that, after YOU said that to me.. guess you don’t like it. See my point?
@dlturn no…….
@LibyaLiberty dont you love how anxious outsiders are to leap to literalist , out of context , historically illiterate interpretations?
@dlturn you may consider it hyperbolic but certainly not irrelevant