Thursday, April 20, 2006

Religion: What's God got to do with it?

Karen Armstrong in the New Statesman
Despite interesting and revealing differences in emphasis, these traditions all reached remarkably similar solutions. They can, perhaps, tell us something important about the structure of our humanity. The God of Israel was an important symbol of transcendence, but in the other Axial faiths the gods were not very important.

That difference seems to immediately disappear along the way to her syncretic conclusions.

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