Karen armstrong contrasts ancient or pre-modern thinking about god and religion with modern views. she often prefers ancient views on religion and its central concepts. for instance, belief or faith is central to the religious experience for both pre-modern and modern relgious worldviews. unlike the ancients, moderns think having a religious belief or faith means

Modern uneducated persons believe faith means to believe in having to act in according to a higher being. The modern intellectual know that faith and belief on reason is in having understanding of two types of moral judgements, how to live your life, how to treat others, happiness, and how to love. That is why this Karen Armstrong prefers ancient views because she knows ancient people spent more time studying nature and understood what it meant to respect each other.