Author Karen Armstrong on her years in a convent
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- Karen Armstrong, best-selling author of "A History of God," talks to Minnesota Public Radio's Kerri Miller about her time in a convent Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014 at the Fitzgerald Theater in downtown St. Paul, Minn. Armstrong's most recent book is "Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence." She created the Charter for Compassion, for which she won the TED Prize.
I was educated in a Convent in the 1960's. They seemed to be lacking in compassion and kindness. They are many different kinds of love. The nuns only had love for God, YET in my opinion the one most important teaching of Christ was "Love one another". The enclosed Orders/Convents were particularly harsh and their strict rules and desire to break their novices and nuns spirits in order for them to have solely God in their lives was cruel and unnecessary. They seemed to ignore the fact that Jesus Himself was sociable, enjoyed a glass of wine, mixed freely with friends and strangers, had a sense of humour and was filled with love, kindness and compassion.
Yes. Karen's book explained to me the harsh and critical atmosphere at my own childhood Convent schools The nuns themselves had come through a harsh and unChristian training, and formed by it, they replicated it. It turned out that I did get a good basic education though, and also, oddly, a thorough grounding in Greek philosophical thought - things like the teaching of the immortal soul, for example - which is very much not a Bible teaching, let alone a Christian one. It wasn't until many years later that I found out what the Bible actually says - when two Jehovah's Witnesses called at my door. I only wish I had known sooner.
Jesus enjoyed a glass of wine? Not under Islam he wouldn't.
At least she was able to leave the convent without an accompanying death sentence, unlike Islam. Prophet Mohammed said, ' Hellfire has been created for the senseless and women are the most senseless of all.' (Khanz al- ummal). But in Islam the guys do the thinking for them. Assbumshallah!
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