World Asked to Help Craft Online Charter for Religious Harmony
November 15th, 2008The old tinfoil is a fully unfurled, in-your-face fact now.
I’m not a religious person, but all of the world’s religions contain memes that, if followed, would produce the rhetorical peace on earth effect that the elite say that they desire. Why not encourage religious people to focus on the “golden rule” aspects of their own religions WITHIN their own religions? The problem isn’t different religions. The problem is far more related to the fact that societies have become gigantic psychopath hatcheries. New mumbo jumbo isn’t going to solve the psychopath problem, especially when the worst offenders are sitting highest in the temple, or should I say, pyramid?
The elite are smart in some ways, but they’re really stupid in others. Of their many plans, the One World Religion is the most boneheaded and doomed to fail. How many flavors of each major religion are there? HA.
The existing religions, or factions within them, will call this the Devil, or some equivalent, and they’ll never buy into it.
Oh well, at least the mask is off and the debate about whether They want this or not is over.
Note: Stanford Research Institute already went through this exercise with Changing Images of Man in the 1970s.
Via: AFP:
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.
I was a member of a fundamentalist / heterodox religion for many years before tiring of the whole soul destroying, polemical and mechanical nature of it.
Some years after leaving, I found a second hand copy of the book Kevin linked to (behind the ‘psychopath hatcheries’ link for those following along at home). Reading that book cover to cover encapsulated in a ‘nutshell’ all the strife and problems our human society is going through.
Thanks Kevin for bringing this amazing book to your readers’ attention.
I’ll very likely give the book a perusal at the very least.
One of my bigger subconscious fears about the unfolding collapse is that the course of events will validate Fundamentalist Christian theology by more or less mirroring what the Book of Revelations predicts for the End Times. (With the exception of the Rapture. Even if I were a tongue-speaking, snake-fondling hillybilly fundy, I don’t think I could believe in the Rapture. Something that worldwide and blatantly supernatural would make it too easy for those left behind to believe, after all, woudln’t it?) And that’s because I’m at the point in my personal development where I find Fundy Xtian theology so utterly repellent that I couldn’t bring myself to be a believer even if it could somehow be demonstrated to be objectively true. And that, of course, would mean that I was destined for the Big Basement for all eternity, along with everybody who isn’t a born-again shit-for-brains. Some cosmos that would be to live in! But I still wouldn’t “take the Mark of the Beast” (likely in the form of an implanted computer-chip) even if it meant starving to death and being an outcast.
One theology I believed in for a while was New Age orthodoxy, namely that you are 100% responsible for 100% of the reality you experience 100% of the time through the agency of your thoughts and feelings. That kind of absolutism is pretty fundamentalist by itself and really has a way of not squaring very well with the experience of real life. I finally realized that Kool-Aid was no longer for me when I took a good look at saw what a bunch of silly dopes orthodox New Agers on the Internet were.
So now I guess I’m just weird and inconsistent. (And as long as I’m rambling about religion and worldview, I just thought I’d add that another group whom I think needs to be put in their place hugely and seriously are the atheist-skeptizealot Dawkins-fanbois of the sort who populate Reddit.com. If that lot honestly think they are not old-fashioned religious fanatics, then that only goes to show how good fanatics are at kidding themselves!)
As a NON-fundie Bible believing Christian (and former atheist), I concur. I can see the likes of Hagee and Lindsay denouncing this one world religion BS as “God’s strong delusion” (2 Thess. 2:9-11) (when, of course, the strong delusion is partly what these two and their Christian-Zionist fellows preach)…such that “most Christians” will believe that this movement is the harbinger to “the rapture” (which I believe is nonsense as well Love andLight) and the “great tribulation” and by denouncing this stuff it might leave them open to true anti-Christ.
As for psychopathology in power, also read “Political Ponerology” by Lobaczewski, if you can stand the scholarliness and understand the psych jargon. Always beware when possible psychopaths (Page…I mean it might take a psychopath to amass his kind of wealth, power, and crush the competition ethics…but what do I know with only a BS in Psychology and a Masters in Counseling?) try to push Kumbaya on us.
And yes, Loveandlight, fundie atheists are just as odious as fire and brimstone “hell for eternity for sinners” Christians. NO ONE is going to hell for “eternity”!
“Eternity” just means an unknown {obscure} amount of time. To punish endlessly is against the Law.
http://www.goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=21276
Just finished reading Nathaniel Merritt’s “Jehovah Unmasked”
and would recommend to anyone disturbed by churchianity.
Merritt’s belief ( also Gnostic Xtinaity’s) that lower gods (Archons)
clumsily created Earth and mankind from dead matter of the
universe and thus the horror story that is our physical existence.
In a round about way this explains the cryptocracy’s ” I gotta
secret and if only you were worthy of knowing it i’d tell yah”
Game’s up boys – Christ wouldn’t bow to the “God of this World”
but you did. Hope this mass of decaying matter makes you
happy ! It ain’t gonna last – it’s as flawed as your fiat $$$.
Game’s up boys – Christ wouldn’t bow to the “God of this World”
but you did. Hope this mass of decaying matter makes you
happy ! It ain’t gonna last – it’s as flawed as your fiat $$$.
It would be so great if we could be done with this freaking place. I sometimes think that the 3rd Dimension of space-time is Hell.
http://hare.org/
not everyone has the emotions of conscience. robert hare has worked with this reality for over a quarter century.
our genetic differences are becoming greater understood with each passing year.
one world religion? we haven’t a one world anything.
the psychopath problem is real. kurt vonnegut spoke of it in his last book, ‘a man without a country’. he called them PP’s -psychopathic personalities. the last 8 years under bush underscored and delineated the problem well enough.
the power intoxication that goes with national leadership is another but related problem. something robert hare studied. (i wish he had MRI facilities at his free disposal…) power intoxication alone is worth study.
substantial dissolution of ego on a broad scale takes more cultural reconstruction than any religion. it takes substance. and substances.
what we may be facing is the culmination of hundreds of years of alcohol inculturation on top of the millenia old dominator subculture. let a one world religion tackle that right off.
My younger brother is something of a sociopath and is the only one of my siblings that still takes Catholicism seriously. Coincidence?
@Zuma, WRT people who are full of “PP”:
I have noticed that ever since about 2003, US society has become a place where the freaking jerks are very firmly in charge, to an extent that’s very badly socially and economically destabilizing. Though I suppose that’s fairly self-evident by now, or else the huge Ponzi-scheme that are the derivatives-based financial-markets that have triggered our society’s initial round of “future-shock” problems, wouldn’t even have been possible! In fact, I regard the increasingly flagrant manifestations of social and moral badness I see as very reliable guages of the nearness of “The End of the World As We Have Known It”.