What's your opinion on apophatic theology?

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4. Armstrong = the Kim Kardashian of theology

Just another con artist who created a great marketing opportunity. Especially among the "spiritual but not religious" demographic.

Almost all of Armstrong's name-droppers call her a "scholar," which she isn't. She's a former nun who failed to get a university degree. Her M.O. is to pick a Deity-Of-The-Day, and Armstrong hasn't yet met a deity she doesn't like, AFAIK. She vacuums up the research done by real scholars on that deity/religion, lets it digest for a while, then pukes it back up in a pile of her own bland metaphysical noodlings.

Her brown-nosing of Islam was especially egregious. Mohammed really loved the Jews! Anti-Semitism was created by the West! Give me a break.

If Armstrong really believes her own BS, she should go spend some time with the enthusiastic Sunni theologians of ISIS. As an unmarried woman past child-bearing age, I think she'd soon discover her real value in their society - fetching water and food for the Brothers. If she started mouthing off about how "we all worship the same God," she'd discover that's called apostasy. And carries the death penalty.