Karen Armstrong
The interview of Karen Armstrong, “Coming to Terms With God in a Newly Religious Age” (Opinion, Dec. 22), made me wonder how many others are caught in the same trap as Armstrong. A former nun who left the Catholic faith and proclaimed herself an atheist, she has wrestled with her spirituality ever since. She now considers herself a freelance monotheist. Armstrong has a great deal of “head knowledge” that unfortunately has never found its way to being “heart knowledge.”
She is a perfect example of Romans 1:22: “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” Thus, the god she actually worships is “intellect,” which will be of little value to her in the end.
DAN O’NEIL
Santa Ana
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