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.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.
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.
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
2 comments:
So you're saying you find it silly for people of different religious persuasions to get along?
Or, more likely, it's silly to even try to have them get along (at least through any method other than war)?
I agree. I hope all the muslims kill the christians kill the jews kill the muslims. Gang warfare is okay with me.
That's why I'm for all the endevours of the USA into the religious parts of the middle-east, and only regret that instead of Iraq they hadn't gone after Iran, or better yet, Saudi Arabia.
In some places, people of different faiths are living side by side and getting along as we speak. In others, they are not. It is nutty to think a gang of global do-gooders can make us all hold hands.
I sincerely hope we can withdraw from the Middle East in my lifetime and I am already on the record as being adamantly opposed to invading Iran. Iranians are smart people with a beautiful cultural history; I am confident they will eventually sort their problems out. Military intervention would only screw things up.
I just think grand, world-hugging fantasies are laughable and worthy of only derision.
Finally, these people know nothing of religion. They think if they can just get the Christians to chop off a little here, and if the Muslims would only sand off those rough edges, etc we could make everything work out ok. The biggest religions have been rubbing against on another for almost 2000 years and have proven very resistant to the kind of syncretism this naive crowd dreams of.
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