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==Legacy==
 
==Legacy==
 
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[[File:Nelson Shanks Portrait of HRH Diana, Princess of Wales 1996.jpg|thumb|Nelson Shanks, Portrait of HRH Diana, Princess of Wales 1996.]]
:...compassionate action is the only valid test of true spirituality; and people in post-Christian Europe are keenly aware of this insight. Many have left the conventional church because they are repelled by the uncharitable behavior of the devout; crusades, inquisitions and persecutions, past and present, have discredited faith....The deification of Diana, Princess of Wales, in the extraordinary days after her death was a religious event, due, at least in part, to the fact that Diana had become an icon of compassion in a depersonalized world. - [[Karen Armstrong]], author of ''[[A History of God]]''
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:...compassionate action is the only valid test of true spirituality; and people in post-Christian Europe are keenly aware of this insight. Many have left the conventional church because they are repelled by the uncharitable behavior of the devout; crusades, inquisitions and persecutions, past and present, have discredited faith....The deification of Diana, Princess of Wales, in the extraordinary days after her death was a religious event, due, at least in part, to the fact that Diana had become an icon of compassion in a depersonalized world. - [[Karen Armstrong]], author of ''A History of God''
 
      
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