Karen Armstrong: 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion

http://www.ted.com As she accepts her 2008 TED Prize, author and scholar Karen Armstrong talks about how the Abrahamic religions -- Islam, Judaism, Christianity -- have been diverted from the moral purpose they share to foster compassion. But Armstrong has seen a yearning to change this fact. People want to be religious, she says; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion -- to help restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.

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[macwoof]

wow, it is amazing how so many posters completely missed the point she was making about compassion and religion.

[sarshar1]

everything she said is in fact written in details in the Holy Quran .. there is no Iliad or Homer tho in the Holy Quran but there are similer ones such as Joseph story or David and Goliath and many more .she is a great great lady i love ideas .

[shumbusgumbuli]

"These texts [scriptures] that are being abused"? Which part of kill the infidel is abused?

[shumbusgumbuli]

Next time that they ask you "What can we do?", please tell them to go and educate themselves, and get rid of their stupidities, starting with their religion, whichever it is.

[joshlazarus]

I know Karen Armstrong doesn't believe in God. In her book, 'A History of God,' she says "men have been creating Gods as soon as they have began creating works of art and music" and "God is just man-made." However, she's a firm believer in the Golden Rule. She believes true religion should be about compassion toward one another rather than the belief in God(s) because it divides us. It hurts my head reading her books, she's so thought-provoking.

[neuromatiker]

She is making my ears hurt. Perhaps she should visit the compationate teleban stoning women. Or the compationate catholic priest raping children. Or the compatoinate Israeli solidiers killing women and children.

[DeFaulty101]

This is "Karen Armstrong: 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for COMPASSIO?"

[MrCIickHere]

nice info..

[crudhousefull]

The crafters of any charter that has to do with religion has to take into consideration the more occult aspects of each religion, the practises that allow the mind to be more spiritual (meditation, prayer). Please don't make it secular where the crux of religion is lost. Love that she understands the importance of proper interpretation of scripts. Scripts were never written by the geniuses themselves (Buddha, Jesus, Mohammad), but by lesser individuals, many centuries after the revelations