Fields of Blood
G Gordon Steel is impressed by Karen Armstrong’s new book
There is much in Karen Armstrong’s new book Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence that is of importance to Quakers.
The author says that she embarked upon writing it in order to counteract the common misconception that wars and large-scale violence are caused by religion. In the space of 500 pages, she thoroughly demolishes this view.
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