FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: More on Karen Armstrong

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: November 23, 2009 8:53:08 AM CST
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
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> Recent posts here have noted her Charter for Compassion. THe problem, of 
> course, with claiming that compassion is at the center of all religions is 
> that it ignores human history. If true, why have we been fighting so many 
> times?
> 
> Institute adjunct faculty member R. Joseph Hoffmann has weighed in on this 
> blog on some of these issues, noting several other critics with these same 
> doubts. His conclusion? Karen Armstrong
> 
>>      needs to write less and read more. And think about what she reads.
> 
> His blog is at http://rjosephhoffmann.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/487/
> 
> Bob