Posted on 11/14/2008 4:50:36 PM PST by MountainLoop
A website launched Friday with the backing of technology industry and Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony between all religions. The Charter for Compassion project on the Internet at www.charterforcompassion.org springs from a "wish" granted this year to religious scholar Karen Armstrong at a premier Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) conference in California.
"Tedizens" include Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin along with other Internet icons as well as celebrities such as Forest Whittaker and Cameron Diaz.
Wishes granted at TED envision ways to better the world and come with a promise that Tedizens will lend their clout and capabilities to making them come true.
Armstrong's wish is to combine universal principles of respect and compassion into a charter based on a "golden rule" she believes is at the core of every major religion.
The Golden Rule essentially calls on people to do unto others as they would have done unto them.
"The chief task of our time is to build a global society where people of all persuasions can live together in peace and harmony," Armstrong said.
"If we do not achieve this, it seems unlikely that we will have a viable world to hand on to the next generation."
Charter for Compassion invites people from "all faiths, nationalities, languages and backgrounds" to help draft statements of principles and actions that should be taken.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
When should we start laughing? I can see it now — harmony between Christianity and Islam.....(sound of roaring laughter in the background)
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“..Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony between all religions.”
Whaaaat?! Hollywood jihad?
There is no harmony between truth and error.
And, just what is the DEFINITION of “harmony?” IDIOTS.
But Christianity is an exclusive religion. We can get along with others, but we believe our religion is the only way to God.
Muslims and Jews feel the same way.
I hope this initiative crashes and burns ASAP.
One world religion (grander than the Unitarian Universalists) coming soon to a mosque/temple/church near you...isn’t this something that has been listed as one of the signs of the end times?
sigh...guess I better read Revelations AGAIN!!!
Dreamers, one and all. Fools really. Very sad.
The Golden Rule essentially calls on people to do unto others as they would have done unto them.
I guess she doesn't consider Islam a major religion. The golden rule is a Christian thing. And one of he reasons the naive Christians are no match for fundamental Muslims.- tom
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Here it comes, The one world religion
A website launched Friday with the backing of technology industry and Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony between all religions....y'know, because there's nothing technocrats and the Hollywood elite are about more than religion. Oh, and drug abuse, buggery, hiring undocumented workers, and carrying water for the Dhimmicrat Party.
I know how we can achieve harmony between religions, Ban Islam.
The sooner they stop trying to kill everyone who isn’t Islam, the sooner we will have religious harmony.
Good grief. This just shows these people don’t even know anything about ANY major world religion.
Diffuse the masses!
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