Samaritan Blog: Charter for Compassion

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Charter for Compassion

Weeks from the Charter for Compassion launch, Karen Armstrong looks at religion's role in the 21st century: Will its dogmas divide us? Or will it unite us for common good? She reviews the catalysts that can drive the world's faiths to rediscover the Golden Rule.

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AnonymousOctober 3, 2009 at 10:02 AM
She has a new book out that I have to get! m
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"My aim is not - most definitely not - to argue that social problems could be solved if only more people performed more acts of kindness. Nor do I propose that we can dispense with most government on the faith that altruism will guide citizens to serve the public good. Rather, I aim to show that altruism is a powerful, centripetal force in everyday life."

-- Deborah Stone

I admire the Good Samaritan for picking up people on the side of the road, but I don't want to be the Good Samaritan. I want to fix the road to Jericho, so people don't get beat up there.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Tolstoy

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

Charter for Compassion

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