"Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion"
- Karen Armstrong
About this Quote
This quote by Karen Armstrong recommends that fundamentalist motions in Judaism, Christianity and Islam have a deep-seated fear that secular liberal society is attempting to get rid of faith. This worry is based on a gut feeling that secular liberal society is hostile to faith and is actively attempting to remove it from the public sphere. Armstrong implies that this fear is unfounded and that secular liberal society is not actively trying to get rid of faith, but rather is attempting to produce a more tolerant and inclusive society. This fear of secular liberal society is a major consider the rise of fundamentalist movements, as they attempt to protect their religion from what they perceive as a danger.
This quote is written / told by Karen Armstrong somewhere between November 14, 1944 and today. He/she was a famous Writer from England.
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