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September 5, 2004

History of God

A God who is in some mysterious way a person and who takes an active part in human history lays himself open to criticism. It is all too easy to make this "God" a larger-than-life tyrant or judge and make "him" fulfill our expectations. We can turn "God" into a Republican or a socialist, a racist or a revolutionary according to our personal views. The danger of this has led some to see a personal God as an unreligious idea, because it simply embeds us in our own prejudice and makes our human ideas absolute.
---Karen Armstrong, in History of God

Source: Discussions online about Karen Armstrong's History of God Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reprint edition (September 1, 1994) ISBN: 0345384563

Posted by niganit at September 5, 2004 7:18 PM
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