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Toto · 09-28-2005, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by GakuseiDon

That's from 'A History of God' also.

Does anyone know if she's declared an actual belief in God since then?

That would be going backward, like deciding to believe in Santa Claus again, would it not? She has a set of beliefs that she feels allow her to call herself a monotheist. She has never called herself an atheist.

GakuseiDon · 09-28-2005, 03:05 PM

Looks like she does call herself a monotheist nowadays, so you are correct, Toto. Here is a transcript of an interview from 2002:
http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/tr...armstrong.html

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MOYERS: Where are you in your own journey? You're not a practicing Catholic, are you?

ARMSTRONG: No. I usually call myself these days a freelance monotheist. I draw nourishment from all three of the religions of Abraham, uh, I spend my life studying these faiths, in a sense I'm still a nun. I live alone, and I've never married, and I spend my life writing and talking and reading and studying spirituality and God. And I can not see in essence any one of these three faiths as superior to any of the others. I suppose one of my hopes in life is to try to get Jews, Christians and Muslims to realize the profound unanimity, the unanimous vision that they share, and to join hands together to stop the kind of cruelty, violence and obscenity, moral obscenity that we saw on September the 11th.

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