Enslavement or Salvation of Mind: Is Man or God the Architect of Religion, Theology or Spirituality?

"If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this was good theology. But if your notion of God made you unkind, belligerent, cruel, of self-righteous, or if it led you to kill in God's name, it was bad theology" (Karen Armstrong, author of The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness).

 

Author, Karen Armstrong makes a good point regarding one's belief and practice of religion, theology...