Inspiring people to think differently about religion:
“The Charter will show that the voice of negativity and violence so often associated with religion is the minority and that the voice of compassion is the majority.”
Here’s the kind of email I love to receive — and share. Please keep ’em coming:
“I was part of an extraordinary interfaith meeting that took place in Switzerland this winter. The gathering was nothing less than the attempt to create a common movement among Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus to delegitimize the use of religion as a technique of either state or personal violence.
“TED, a think tank that concentrates on new ideas in Technology, Entertainment and Design, gave its Make a Wish Award to theologian Karen Armstrong last year. Armstrong’s wish, after years of religious scholarship and writing, was that TED would help create a universal charter for compassion among all the major religions of the world.
“To launch the project TED built a website that invited people all over the world, in multiple languages, out of every religious perspective, to contribute ideas for the Charter for Compassion —perhaps the first example of a universally created document in the history of the world.”
If you have further interest in this, check out their website:
http://charterforcompassion.com/
They expect this Charter for Compassion will be launched in cities around the world in November of this year.
“I was part of an extraordinary interfaith meeting that took place in Switzerland this winter. The gathering was nothing less than the attempt to create a common movement among Jews, Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Hindus to delegitimize the use of religion as a technique of either state or personal violence.”
It was the kind of email I love to receive — and share, “Inspiring people to think differently about religion.” Please keep ’em coming:
“TED, a think tank that concentrates on new ideas in Technology, Entertainment and Design, gave its Make a Wish Award to theologian Karen Armstrong last year. Armstrong’s wish, after years of religious scholarship and writing, was that TED would help create a universal charter for compassion among all the major religions of the world.
“To launch the project TED built a website that invited people all over the world, in multiple languages, out of every religious perspective, to contribute ideas for the Charter for Compassion —perhaps the first example of a universally created document in the history of the world.”
If you have further interest in this, check out their website:
http://charterforcompassion.com/
They expect this Charter for Compassion will be launched in cities around the world in November of this year.
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