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In court filings, Phoenix calls the pro-gun ads “political rhetoric in the sheep’s clothing of an ostensible commercial advertisement.”
- ‘Guns Save Lives’ ads return to Phoenix bus stops, The Arizona Republic, August 14, 2017.
3. If there’s a single historical moment that captures what the author Karen Armstrong wants to convey in her new book, “Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence,” it’s the Christmas-Day coronation of Charlemagne in 800. “Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne ‘Holy Roman Emperor’ in the Basilica of St. Peter,” she writes. “The congregation acclaimed him as ‘Augustus’ and Leo prostrated himself at Charlemagne’s feet.” If you want to blame the human race’s long, ghastly history of bloodshed on religion, Armstrong argues, be aware that faith is more often the servant than the master of politics.
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Armstrong sees the desires, actions and beliefs of most civilizations as being ultimately shaped and driven by political and economic needs. It was industrialization and the demands of capitalism that inaugurated the ideal of a secular society, first in the United States and later in Europe. But secularism cannot, in Armstrong’s mind, supply the average person with the sort of meaning and transcendence found in religion. It replaced faith with nationalism — sometimes literally, as during the French Revolution, when Catholic churches were purged and filled with idols representing the new republic. But while Armstrong claims that “all the world’s great religious traditions share as one of their most essential tenets the imperative of treating others as one would wish to be treated oneself,” nationalism, she says, can’t encompass the notion of a larger brotherhood of man.
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