Tiffany B. Brown

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Posts tagged: karen armstrong

You’re Wrong Thomas Friedman
A less polite me would say “Really, Thom Friedman? Just STFU because your latest column is the biggest load of BS on the internet this week.” So thank you Glenn Greenwald for taking Friedman to task: In a very rare moment of candor for this rank war-loving propagandist, he announced very clearly the real purpose [...] [29 Nov 2009]
Rethinking God
From Karen Armstrong’s Foreign Policy piece: Think Again: God: Homo sapiens is also Homo religiosus. As soon as we became recognizably human, men and women started to create religions. We are meaning-seeking creatures. While dogs, as far as we know, do not worry about the canine condition or agonize about their mortality, humans fall very [...] [19 Nov 2009]