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Karen Armstrong · 2014
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What this book knows
Religion does not cause violence; rather, violence is structural to civilization, and religion has always been enmeshed in that structure.
faith-and-doubt
it is far too easy to make religion a scapegoat rather than trying to see what is really going on in the world
FBR-RC-241Indian religion had always endorsed martial violence, but as early as the eighth century BCE the renouncers began to challenge it
FBR-RC-198obedience-and-authority
the nation had certainly become an embodiment of the divine, a supreme value… the state had been devised to contain violence, but the nation was now being used to release it
FBR-RC-348liberation priests were dubbed communists… imprisoned, tortured, and executed because they made clear the economic order imposed on the Third World was inherently violent
FBR-RC-313trauma-and-survival
for Muslims, its brutal destruction evoked the horrifying specter of Islam's annihilation in the subcontinent
FBR-RC-254Judaism owed its survival to scholars who transformed a faith based on temple worship into a religion of the book
FBR-RC-081Illuminates
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