A conversation with guest host Reverend Peter Gomes and author Karen Armstrong

with Karen Armstrong
in Lifestyle, Books, Religion
on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 * * * * *

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Guest host Reverend Peter Gomes talks to religious scholar and author Karen Armstrong about her book "The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions".

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    1. Jopa09  12/04/2009 11:57 PM Report

      I do respect Karen as great expert in the history of Religions of the world, but when she promotes compassion and the "golden" rule, which states " don't do to other what you would do to yourself" as a universal principle to save the world, I have a great fundamental problem.

      This rule implies, that we have the same criteria for what is good and bad for all people, but is not true.

      Example: Suicide bomber kills others and kills himself, but he does not violate the "golden rule".

      Another example: Christians who where forcefully converting other people into their belief, often killing them, but sincerely thinking that they were doing the best thing for them.

      It seems to me, that this rule actually maybe the core problem of the world.

      I would much rather see simple but fundamental rule, that human live is absolutely sacred, nobody can kill anybody including oneself. If all religions would agree on that principal, we may see some hope in fight with extremists who are ready to kill themselves and others.

    2. Allan  05/14/2008 06:48 PM Report

      I'd love to hear a discussion between Karen Armstrong and John Hagee or James Dobson. It would be interesting to see how radically different they view Christianity. I think Karen's view is more reasonable and morally consistent yet Hagee and Dobson get the devotees while Armstrong is confined to more academic circles. Too bad for all of us.

    3. george  07/31/2007 07:08 PM Report

      Karen Armstrong is awesome!! She really knows how to express her thoughts in a very compassioante way. She truly CARES. I hope our political leaders are listening....

    4. M. Keller  05/15/2007 10:59 AM Report

      I so appreciated this interview. Karen touches something in me, and in fact in all of us, that implies the presence of the holy. That somehow this world is really organized around ultimate compassion - that is, our capacity to recognize, to reach for and finally to achieve compassion. It is of God.