http://charterforcompassion.com/

From an e-mail sent by TED.com:

What we’re doing, starting today, is to begin writing the Charter for Compassion that Karen Armstrong called for earlier this year when she made her TED Prize wish. And the exhilarating twist here is that the writing won’t be done behind closed doors. It will be done by you… and perhaps millions of others around the world. Because we’re using special collaborative web tools created by the geniuses at Kluster to enable this be truly a charter “created by the world for the world”.

Later this week millions of Muslims, Christians, and Jews will be sent an email inviting them to come to the site and offer their choice of words, in their own language, to help create a charter capable of inspiring the world to focus on what the great religions share, as opposed to what divides them.

“What the great religions share”... belief in imaginary crap.

Really, does each of those leaders believe that they (and only they) are right, and all the other leaders are wrong, on a myriad of unprovable topics? Is it not far more likely that they are ALL wrong?

For Pete’s sake, don’t they realize how pointless it is to agree to disagree on issues such as whether an animal is kosher to eat or not, or which direction you should face when you pray?

Does it not emerge that what they share are basic human values, which – surprise – have NOTHING to do with any God, but simply make up what’s called Humanism?