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World asked to help craft online charter for religious harmony
Breitbart ^ | November 14, 2008 | AFP

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 ...


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To: MountainLoop

“Mental parasites, they took up a Universal Vague Religion”—WH Auden


41 posted on 11/14/2008 7:20:42 PM PST by avenir
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To: mkjessup

AMEN!


42 posted on 11/14/2008 7:22:15 PM PST by avenir
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To: mkjessup

“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.”

?


43 posted on 11/14/2008 8:44:15 PM PST by jackmercer
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To: EagleUSA

Haven’t they already addressed this?

Convert to Islam, or die?


44 posted on 11/14/2008 9:43:06 PM PST by OldTCS (Leftist president, senate, and house? Batten down the hatches!)
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To: MountainLoop; NYer; WKB; Sopater; greyfoxx39; Arthur Wildfire! March; Fichori; tpanther

One world religion ping


45 posted on 11/14/2008 9:50:41 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: MountainLoop
Let's ask this guy for his opinion:


46 posted on 11/14/2008 9:53:52 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (SARAH *** JOE *** 2012!)
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To: metmom
Let's see......one World Government, one World Religion, and one World Monetary System coming.

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.

47 posted on 11/15/2008 3:15:43 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: Musketeer

is that binary for 666?


48 posted on 11/15/2008 3:19:14 AM PST by mdmathis6 (I'm Mike the RN!( I often do plumbing of a different sort))
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To: MountainLoop
The Golden Rule essentially calls on people to do unto others as they would have done unto them.

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.

49 posted on 11/15/2008 3:20:42 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: MountainLoop
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."

50 posted on 11/15/2008 3:34:39 AM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: jackmercer
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?

You would be guessing wrong. All citizens have the right to believe whatever they wish, even if those beliefs end up putting the equivalent of a spiritual FedEx label on their butts, for swift delivery straight to Hell at the end of their mortal lives.

It is our obligation as Christians to introduce those doomed souls to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to fully explain their need for the Saviour. But in the end, it is their choice and if God can respect that choice, certainly we can too.

But I'll say it loud and proud for as long as I have breath, that
"Jesus is the Way, the only Way" to enter the Kingdom of God.

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.”?

No it's not the same.
51 posted on 11/15/2008 3:36:57 AM PST by mkjessup (See my FR Homepage for a tribute to Senator Joe McCarthy, feel free to copy and distribute!)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood
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.

52 posted on 11/15/2008 3:40:58 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: jackmercer
How about if we let every religion not be Policed by the Government, and if one Truth prevails over another then that is because it was True?

If you want to live in your own little world where Ideas and Truth cannot penetrate your mind, then move to Mars.

53 posted on 11/15/2008 3:42:59 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

*BAM* - lol, I haven’t seen a knockout like that since the Reverend George Foreman was in the ring! :)


54 posted on 11/15/2008 4:12:30 AM PST by mkjessup (See my FR Homepage for a tribute to Senator Joe McCarthy, feel free to copy and distribute!)
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To: SkyPilot

Scripture taken out of context. A favorite ploy of the Adversary. Mix just a little truth with the lie...


55 posted on 11/15/2008 5:46:25 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: SkyPilot

Love it.


56 posted on 11/15/2008 5:48:39 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: MountainLoop

I am sure atheist stalinists just can’t wait to join the endeavor. I somehow don’t think so.


57 posted on 11/15/2008 5:52:28 AM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: MountainLoop

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.


58 posted on 11/15/2008 5:58:18 AM PST by bergmeid
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To: SunkenCiv

You left out “rotating-door marriages.”


59 posted on 11/15/2008 11:43:40 AM PST by PeteePie (thinking about a name change...)
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To: EagleUSA; All
Translation:

Google stock has crashed to an all time low. We desperately need revenue. So we are even willing to suck up to those dark ages websites (Christians yucky) in the hopes that they will continue to publish our crappy ads and not block too many of our gay and porno sites.

Google Stock
$685/share Jan 2008
$301/share Nov 2008

60 posted on 11/15/2008 11:52:44 AM PST by Fred (The Democrat Party is the Nadir of Nihilism and BO is a WHINING marxist)
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