"The extraordinary and eccentric emphasis on 'belief' in Christianity today is an accident of history that has distorted our understanding of religious truth. We call religious people 'believers', as though acceptance of a set of doctrines was their principal activity..."
--Karen Armstrong, Confusion by Christians between belief and reason has created bad science and inept religion
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Wow. This article "clicks" together on so many levels for me... I've been following different sources from different christian traditions, historians and psychologists and many todays problems of the modern man point to these shifts in the Enlihhtenment period. Thanks for sharing!
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