Religion and the History of Violence by …

Religion and the History of Violence by Karen Armstrong http://goo.gl/dx7SaO Karen Armstrong at Politics and Prose Bookstore Armstrong demonstrates again and again that the great spasms of cruelty and killing through history have had little or no religious overlay. In modern times Hitler, Stalin and Mao were all atheists, and the power behind the Holocaust, … Continue reading Religion and the History of Violence by …

The God Shaped Hole….

The God Shaped Hole.... A few months ago Oxford Dictionaries Online added the acronym FOMO to its catalog of words.  FOMO stands for “fear of missing out”--it’s the anxiety that rises up in us when we think that we may be missing out on a party or an event or really any kind of social interaction.  It’s … Continue reading The God Shaped Hole….