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Karen Armstrong: Charter for Compassion

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Donald Weetman Cameron Avatar
Donald Weetman Cameron
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Posted: 08.26.09, 05:27 AM
Compassion is the intrinsic implementation of Empathy.

Empathy we feel; compassion we do.

Abstractly yours
dwc
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MTGRAY
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Posted: 08.27.09, 03:19 PM
Socrates said clearly forget it all they will lie about us in the future.
so lets us enjoy our fine wine and let the talkers talk.
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njtlaw
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Posted: 08.31.09, 11:06 AM
Karen Armstrong makes some of the most complex subjects simple.
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afzalrizvi
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Posted: 12.30.09, 07:47 AM
There is much weight in Karen Armstrong's argument of seeking a combined gamut of religious wisdoms-the charter for compassion.
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Madeleine
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Posted: 01.15.10, 08:52 AM
Armstrong: "Every single one of the major world religions to my understanding has developed it's own version.....of the Golden Rule."

The 'central thread of teaching running through'.. Islam is submittance, as made clear in sharia law. So Armstrong has a deficient understanding of both a major religion and of the Golden Rule. The former is a strict set of laws which cannot be challenged,changed, or denied. The latter is an attitude which understands and employs humanistic principles.
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Donald Weetman Cameron
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Posted: 01.15.10, 04:21 PM
Matthew 7:12 "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets."

Luke 6:31 "Do to others as you would have them do to you."

(verses are quoted in the New International Version of the Bible)

The reason that it appears so similarly in each of these different books is that Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the Synoptic Gospels--that is, they relate many of the same events and record many of the same teachings of Jesus; however, they were written from different perspectives and for different intended audiences. So some of the content is repeated between these books.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Were_in_th...to_do_unto_you
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