Re Karen Armstrong fans and OBA's 'compassion"

[Bekah]

On Feb 20, 2009, at 11:38 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:

> When asked what unites the ethics of the world's religions, scholar  
> Karen Armstrong
> answered with the simplest of answers: "compassion".



That's pretty much the message of her incredible "The Great  
Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions"  but she  
goes into a great deal of detail and comparison of religions during  
the Axial Age,  a period of about 600 BCE years.

Bekah