If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more em... - Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

"If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology."

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