Golden Rule

"It seems to me, that our current situation is so serious at the moment, that any ideology that doesn't promote a sense of global understanding and global appreciation of each other is failing the test of the time.  It's time that we move beyond the idea of toleration and move toward appreciation of the other. "  Karen Armstrong

Relgion and Compassion

"There is, I think, a great deal of religious illiteracy around.  People seem to equate religious faith with believing things.  We call religious people "believers" as though that were the main thing that they do.  And very often secondary goals get pushed into the first place in place of compassion, the Golden Rule, because the Golden Rule is difficult.  A lot of religious people prefer to be right rather than compassionate."  Karen Armstrong

Compassion

"This struggle to find compassion in some of these rather rebarbative texts is a good dress rehersal for doing the same in ordinary life."  Karen Armstrong