{"id":165,"date":"2004-04-06T14:33:15","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T21:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/165"},"modified":"2004-04-06T14:33:15","modified_gmt":"2004-04-06T21:33:15","slug":"karen-armstrong-interview-in-the-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/165","title":{"rendered":"Karen Armstrong Interview in the NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/04\/magazine\/04QUESTIONS.html\">interview with Karen Armstrong<\/a> in this weeks NY Times Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s quite an interesting interview; despite the fact that the interviewer comes across as a total prig, Karen Armstrong holds her own: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Could you feel compassion for someone who wrote a negative review of one of your books?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I spent so many years as an abject failure that if I get a good review, I am surprised. I didn&#8217;t get anywhere near success until I was 50 years old.<\/p>\n<p><i>Perhaps you should have given more thought to the biblical belief in an eye-for-an-eye-style revenge?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>An eye for an eye is about limiting vengeance. You can only take an eye out for an eye; you may not kill someone for knocking out your eye. It means restraining tribal violence, and it is in the Koran.<\/p>\n<p><i>That&#8217;s fascinating, but I still find your emphasis on compassion simplistic. We know from Freud that all true achievement derives from selfishness. Who cares if Michelangelo was nice to his next-door neighbors?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Religions are not dealing with geniuses. They are dealing with ordinary people. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interview with Karen Armstrong in this weeks NY Times Magazine. It&#8217;s quite an interesting interview; despite the fact that the interviewer comes across as a total prig, Karen Armstrong holds her own: Could you feel compassion for someone who wrote a negative review of one of your books? I spent so many years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}