{"id":938,"date":"2008-05-25T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=938"},"modified":"2008-05-25T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T14:14:08","slug":"is-karen-armstrong-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Is Karen Armstrong religious?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Sunday – so let’s have a religious posting.
\nOn the strong recommendation of a friend, I’m currently reading “A History Of God”<\/a> by Karen Armstrong. I’m find it tough going, not least because I am so unsure of the position of the author, and I am constantly asking myself whether Armstrong is now a person of religious belief.
\nI found this long interview<\/a> partially helpful. It reminds us that Karen Armstrong spent seven years in a convent before leaving because she had lost her faith in God. But it seems that, while writing “A History Of God”, she rediscovered some kind of religious faith and we are told that she now calls herself a “freelance monotheist”.
\nThe interview concludes as follows:
\n“Do you consider yourself a religious person?<\/b>
\nYes. It’s a constant pursuit for me. It’s helped me immeasurably to overcome despair in my own life. But I have no hard and fast answers.
\nI take it you don’t like the question, do you believe in God?<\/b>
\nNo, because people who ask this question often have a rather simplistic notion of what God is.
\nWhat about an afterlife?<\/b>
\nIt’s a red herring as far as I’m concerned.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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