“Often people don’t really want to be compassionate. I sometimes see when I’m speaking to a congregation of religious people a sort of mutinous expression crossing their faces because people often want to be right instead.”

– Karen Armstrong, TED July 2009

Comments

1. christine on 2009-10-03 15:38:00 wrote: that was awesome.

2. jacob on 2009-10-08 06:39:55 wrote: Yep. I just saw a clip of Gary Busey, the actor/born again Christian, cursing a woman who interrupted his group prayer to ask that he pray to “God”, rather than Jesus(she was of a different persuastion). He became furious at the interruption and said something like “I’m not done with the f**king prayer!”