Name: My wish: The Charter for Compassion
Uploaded: 2008-03-19T01:00:00Z
Duration: 21 min 13 s
Description: People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help build a Charter for Compassion -- to restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.

People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help build a Charter for Compassion -- to restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious doctrine.

Karen Armstrong: My wish: The Charter for Compassion

My wish: The Charter for Compassion

Compassion, central across all faiths, is about action not belief, emphasizing the Golden Rule as a global ethical code.

Compassion transcends religious doctrine, guiding towards a global ethos of empathy and mutual respect in religious interpretations.

Charter for Compassion aims to unite diverse religious beliefs under the Golden Rule, fostering global peace and understanding.