I'll start by saying that I love Karen Armstrong's books and I considered this one to be a personal favor to me, even though we've never met. With the rise in media coverage of the "new atheism," I was really hoping someone with rock solid credentials would come out with a brilliant and reasoned response. For that you really can't do any better than Karen Armstrong. Now I can have the deep joy of telling anyone who wants to argue religion with me that they should go read this book first.
This is a dense 332 page book with about 60 pages of notes and glossary so I'm going to summarize some of the points in this article, but will also pull out specific themes in later articles to explore in more detail.
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