In Karen Armstrong’s, The Great Transformation, it explains much of ignorance within religion now that it has become organized. Armstrong proposes many interesting facts about how the world has sort of took religion and made it their own- instead of trying to find themselves within their chosen guided religion. She says that, "Some sages steadfastly refused even to discuss theology claiming that it was distracting and damaging. Others argued that it was immature, unrealistic, and perverse to look for the kind of absolute certainty that many people expect religion to provide… What mattered was not what you believed but how you believed (Armstrong)”. This quote provides my strong points with a sort of medium and proof of people taking texts to the extreme and literal. It seems as if religious American culture is taken so serious by every word of what you believed instead of how. The Axial ages were a very important time because it shows how different these texts was used before religion was organized- before the evil of extremism/literalism.[1]
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