Karen Armstrong on Atheism

Interesting views on atheism.

FT.com / Arts & Weekend / Living - ‘I wouldn’t say I was a believer’:

"“So I went to the library and started researching a book, A History of God. Clever Karen went on the back burner and without the audience to show off to and working in silence, I started to have a different relationship with the texts. I began to see, as a Jewish colleague had told me six years before, that theology is poetry. It is an attempt to express the inexpressible. Really beautiful poetry, like a beautiful piece of music, leaves you in silence, in awe and wonderment. It touches something within you and lifts you momentarily beyond yourself. And good theological writing is like that. The monks in the Middle Ages used to practise what they called ‘divine study’, in the course of which you had a moment, milliseconds they said, of prayer. And that’s now my spirituality.”"