The Case for God

The Case for God

The Case for God by Karen Armstrong presents a most unsettling picture of mankind’s quest to define God.  Every era from antiquity, Greeks, Romans, medieval, Renaissance, Reformation, Enlightenment, modern, and the post-modern age based its understanding on the knowledge and culture of that period.  These beliefs of Rousseau’s concept of a universal machine, Newton’s God and the universe, Darwin’s evolution, Einstein’s relativity, post-modern atheists of the “God is dead” movement, and the rise of fundamentalism gained some traction.  But the search of God continued to be illusive with detractors.  It was however determined that the rise of scientific evidence was based on measurement, while religious beliefs centered on virtues.  In the epilogue Armstrong did an excellent analysis of what she saw as the foundation of religious beliefs.  Nevertheless the contents of this book would be rather disturbing to believers who think they understand their God.