Posted on 12/14/2008 10:28:10 AM PST by foutsc
Look out, believers! Self-appointed Enlightened Ones have decided to craft a charter to make the world's bowl of Mixed Religious Nuts all get along. The goal? Only universal tolerance and world peace.
A website launched Friday with the backing of the 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... in California (where else?) "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.Good luck with that lady! I've seen the world, and it ain't in the mood for joining hands and singing that Coca-Cola song around the Christmas tree. It's more in the mood for Beethoven's Eroica or anything by Wagner that involves loud booms.
But I don't want to be accused of cynicism, so here's my stab at a world peace religious charter:
I have a dream that one day the world's door knockers and tambourine shakers can all get along.The
head cutter will lie down with the bible thumper.The three big monotheistic faiths will combine their religious texts into one book of harmonious diversity, The Toranible.
That the monotheists and the dualists can combine their faiths into a new, confusing trinity of creative destruction, or destructive creativity, or whatever.
Twelver Shia can all drive Mazdas in a nod to Zoroastrians.
Nietzscheans and televangelists can acknowledge each others' will to power.
Christian eco-sinners can buy enviro-indulgences from Reverend Al Gore's Church of Gaia.
This is fun; try it yourself! Fortunately for us believers, this kind of feel-good babble-blather, like a UN resolution, makes the participants feel good, but is largely ineffective. Everyone can go back to their own religious text now.http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081114211405.6b9pjnso&show_article=1
Believe everything hence believe nothing.
Can’t we all just worship Obama like we are supposwd to??
The great falling away prophesied to occur before the return of Christ. Many
are going to be amazed and horrified - the Bible was right after all!
Ms Armstrong, that place already exists. It is called a cemetary
Some people just stretch the concept of ‘stupid’ to unbelievable bonds.
I hate people who try to create world harmony. }:-#
Hippies piss me off! They talk about making world peace but all they do is use drugs and smell bad!
21 Declare what is to be, present it— let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago, who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the LORD ? And there is no God apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none but me.
22 "Turn to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
23 By myself I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked: Before me every knee will bow; by me every tongue will swear.
24 They will say of me, 'In the LORD alone are righteousness and strength.' " All who have raged against him will come to him and be put to shame.
Isaiah 45:20-24
We need a charasmatic world leader to save us!! We need a one-world-religion Pope! The sooner the better. (If I didn’t know better I’d think this was a parody of the Left Behind series...)
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