Ocupation: Author
Life: b. November 14, 1944
Birthday: November 14
It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars, the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag, and the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - none of which were inspired by religion. If we want to understand the dangers of our world, we can no longer accept the old received ideas.
source: "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
topic: War, Ideas, Two, Gulags, Hiroshima And Nagasaki