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.
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