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 ...
“Mental parasites, they took up a Universal Vague Religion”—WH Auden
AMEN!
“Here’s my contribution:
Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life. NO ONE goes to the Father except by HIM.
Mohammed? DEAD
‘allah’? DEAD
Buddha? DEAD
Vishnu? DEAD
Shinto? DEAD
Tao? DEAD
[Yeah, I’m waiting for some wise guy to respond with “Neidermeyer, DEAD!, Wormer? DEAD!”, lol]
All of the above would be deities are dead and in the grave, but Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God and is alive and well and will soon Return exactly as He promised to do.
Bet the rent on that.”
You speak this so forcefully and so negatively against all other religions that I am guessing if you had it your way, you would like for the United States to adopt Christianity as the official mandatory religion to be practiced by all?
Isn’t this the same zealotry and intolerance practiced in Europe from which the early Americans fled? Didn’t their disdain for this “in your face”, believe it or be damned sentiment lead to the incorporation of Freedom of Religion in the 1st amendment and for George Washington to declare:
“While we are contending for our liberty we should be very cautious of violating the Rights of Conscience in others.”
?
Haven’t they already addressed this?
Convert to Islam, or die?
One world religion ping
Nope. We are not in the End Times at all.
I am going to go for a stroll in the local graveyard now, and whistle - because there is nothing to all this One World stuff at all.
is that binary for 666?
The "Golden Rule" is plagiarized from the teachings of Jesus Christ.
9"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 12So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. 13"Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Matthew 7: 9-13
Of course, Christians need not apply to this new Global Religion.
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.
No, it comes from these:
Matthew 7:120... "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
Luke 6:31... "Do to others as you would have them do to you."
Thank you. I am glad some one else around here has a brain cell firing.
If you want to live in your own little world where Ideas and Truth cannot penetrate your mind, then move to Mars.
*BAM* - lol, I haven’t seen a knockout like that since the Reverend George Foreman was in the ring! :)
Scripture taken out of context. A favorite ploy of the Adversary. Mix just a little truth with the lie...
Love it.
I am sure atheist stalinists just can’t wait to join the endeavor. I somehow don’t think so.
I see that Tariq Ramadan is a member of their council. Well, that does it. That man has absolutely no credibility in the Netherlands, whatsoever. What an utter joke.
You left out “rotating-door marriages.”
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