Comments on: The Case For God By Karen Armstrong – What Religion Really Means?

By: Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol – A Page Turner With Puzzles After Puzzles

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:00:11 +0000

[...] is – as always – very thin especially after I have freshly finished reading Karen Armstrong’s latest work. I would not take his religious view too seriously. But I suspect his opinion will stir another [...]

By: wilfrid

wilfrid — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:00:10 +0000

Alfred – Thanks for the question. In no way I can do justice to attempt to answer that question when it takes the entire book to get there. In short, she defines the “new atheism” to be those who want a world without religion – unlike the tradition atheism that has a different concept of God.

She admits that there are things to learn from the new atheism. Much like how the ancient monotheists learned from the Greek philosophers who believed in multiple gods. I think what she refers as the flaws of the new atheism is their lack of depth and knowledge on theology to have a meaning dialogue in the topic of religion.

By: Alfred

Alfred — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:25:21 +0000

“Karen Armstrong highlighted the flaws of the new atheism”

Mind to share what are the flaws she singled out?

By: A Spiritual Reflection – What Karen Armstrong’s Case For God Really Means To Me?

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:02:05 +0000

[...] not always – happy with what I publish here. Technically speak, there is nothing wrong with the book summary I wrote on a Sunday morning, 7am to be exact. But the more I read that post, the more disconnected I [...]