Comments on: Karen Armstrong @ TED2008 http://www.microclesia.com/?p=330 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:33:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: MAUREEN L SHANG http://www.microclesia.com/?p=330&cpage=1#comment-813 MAUREEN L SHANG Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:13:05 +0000 http://www.microclesia.com/?p=330#comment-813 There is a religion that promotes the unity of God, Religion, and mankind. It is called the Bahai Faith. Please check it out. There is a religion that promotes the unity of God, Religion, and mankind. It is called the Bahai Faith. Please check it out.

]]> By: John http://www.microclesia.com/?p=330&cpage=1#comment-663 John Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:33:51 +0000 http://www.microclesia.com/?p=330#comment-663 I wonder how far this kind of thinking can really go? We see the merit in compassion, empathy, the reciprocity of "other," the need for bridges rather than walls (etc..). But (I perceive) most religious followers do not think much about these things. Religion has (overwhelmingly) created a neat and tidy system for people to follow, and to stray from the safety inside the walls is grounds for tribal expulsion. I love what Karen is saying, and have tried to live my life with this kind of ecumenical embrace. But I think we're a tiny minority who think and practice these ideals. Jesus is journaled as being militantly biased against the dominant / institutional religion(s) of his day. That's a model I can live with - along with a healthy embodiment of what we ARE and what we are FOR - which is the kind of "religion" Karen and so many others are promoting. I wonder how far this kind of thinking can really go? We see the merit in compassion, empathy, the reciprocity of “other,” the need for bridges rather than walls (etc..).

But (I perceive) most religious followers do not think much about these things. Religion has (overwhelmingly) created a neat and tidy system for people to follow, and to stray from the safety inside the walls is grounds for tribal expulsion.

I love what Karen is saying, and have tried to live my life with this kind of ecumenical embrace. But I think we’re a tiny minority who think and practice these ideals.

Jesus is journaled as being militantly biased against the dominant / institutional religion(s) of his day. That’s a model I can live with – along with a healthy embodiment of what we ARE and what we are FOR – which is the kind of “religion” Karen and so many others are promoting.

]]> By: Peggy http://www.microclesia.com/?p=330&cpage=1#comment-660 Peggy Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:26:52 +0000 http://www.microclesia.com/?p=330#comment-660 Well, didn't you hear Alan Hirsch's "acting our way into a new way of thinking"... and just as she mentioned about belief not being ascent to knowing information, but a call to action, so the depth of "yada" comes to the fore. It is to know intimately and, consequently, bonding with the other -- resulting in the looking out for the best interest of the other that is the core of hesed. It will be interesting, indeed, to see what happens next. Well, didn’t you hear Alan Hirsch’s “acting our way into a new way of thinking”… and just as she mentioned about belief not being ascent to knowing information, but a call to action, so the depth of “yada” comes to the fore. It is to know intimately and, consequently, bonding with the other — resulting in the looking out for the best interest of the other that is the core of hesed.

It will be interesting, indeed, to see what happens next.

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