The Lost Art of Scripture

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Descirption: 'One of our best living writers on religion' Financial Times
'Karen Armstrong is a genius' A.N. Wilson
'Karen Armstrong is one of the handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion' Alain De Botton
In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division. So what value, if any, can scripture hold for us today? And if our world no longer seems compatible with scripture, is it perhaps because its original purpose has become lost?
Today we see the Quran being used by some to justify war and terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The holy texts at the centre of all religious traditions are often employed selectively to underwrite arbitrary and subjective vie. They are believed to be divinely ordained; they are claimed to...

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