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In the Beginning

  Karen Armstrong is one of my favorite authors.   So I was excited at the prospect of getting into her “interpretation” of Genesis.    In The Beginning.   Ordinarily Armstrong is an accessible writer about issues of religion.  This book made me just a little confused and angry.  Problem, the book doesn’t seem to know exactly what it is.  It is not so much an interpretation of Genesis as a meditation of the fallenness of humankind, seen through the lens…