Karen Armstrong discusses how religion taught us about the natural world
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That said, Descartes may need new media representation. Perhaps Newton, also, who is framed as a theologian rather than the scientist label our culture assigns him. In"Sacred Nature" philosophical concepts aren't necessarily charted as linear progress. “We are miniscule creatures in the grander scheme of things,” Armstrong says. “Before going to bed, before going to sleep, it’s worth reminding ourselves how little we know.”
She feels like our systems of behavior need to be reconfigured in a way that isn’t about preserving the natural, per se, but rather treating it with the reverence we reserve for various man-made systems across centuries – to return a sacred and spiritual reverence to nature.Armstrong uses an internationally familiar entity to illustrate her point for how we misguidedly represent entities across time.
Today she expresses concerns about people with whom she has interacted over the years, typically through her deep feeling for, and understanding and study of religion. She worries about friends in Pakistan, which is dealing with catastrophic flooding.
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