a charter on universal religion
on the lines of UN charter on human rights peace next should forge a charter on universal religion. an approach paper on this could be the theme of the next parliament of religions .nature is the bond between human beings.all of us have a common heritage of nature.spirituality should form the other bond of human beings,if religion means to bind together
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Permalink Reply by Rev.Kastrata Almohnd Maeve on
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I do not fully understand what you mean, but it interests me. Please elaborate more on what you are getting at so I can better understand.
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Permalink Reply by DR/H.S.NAGABHUSHANA BHATTA on
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THE WORLD IS BEING DIVIDED ON THE BASIS OF RELIGIONS.WARS ARE BEING FOUGHT.WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS.WE ARE THE PRODUCTS ,BUT PART OF NATURE.LIFE AND DEATH SHOW TO US THERE IS POWER BY WHICH WE ARE CONTROLLED.
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Permalink Reply by Damon Leff on -
I like your approach, provided this charter is inclusive of diverse religious expression.
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Permalink Reply by Randall Apps on -
There are efforts to create a meeting place of religions along the lines as the UN is for countries.
The UN is a model that had to go through a few changes, starting with the failed League of Nations that started after WW 1.
The current UN is still plagued with inherent problems. Member nations refuse to protest against nations their country trades with for the sake of politics and finance. Human suffering takes a back seat in these cases.
The UN has still made some great break through. Enemy nations can still sit in the same room to join in discussions.
In the proposal you seek, will power be held by those religious groups that intimidate silence from others?
Will the smaller faith groups who experience persicution from dominant faiths in a nation still have a recognised voice?
These are issues each of our own faiths suffered at the time of our founders, and which should be addressed in such a gathering.
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i do not deny this.but we as human beings have evolved and progressed enough to put an end to all this. somewhere some one at some time has to start forging global citizen ship and global/universal religion.world parliament can be universal charter for human beings in the decade 2010 to 20
Randall Apps said:There are efforts to create a meeting place of religions along the lines as the UN is for countries.
The UN is a model that had to go through a few changes, starting with the failed League of Nations that started after WW 1.
The current UN is still plagued with inherent problems. Member nations refuse to protest against nations their country trades with for the sake of politics and finance. Human suffering takes a back seat in these cases.
The UN has still made some great break through. Enemy nations can still sit in the same room to join in discussions.
In the proposal you seek, will power be held by those religious groups that intimidate silence from others?
Will the smaller faith groups who experience persicution from dominant faiths in a nation still have a recognised voice?
These are issues each of our own faiths suffered at the time of our founders, and which should be addressed in such a gathering.
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Permalink Reply by Vijay Kumar on -
Every religion stems from following of an enlightened one! With the advent of Gautama Buddha and Jesus Christ, Buddhism and Christianity came into fore! The purpose of uniting religions... unifying all religions would never prove fruitful. Why? It is just impossible to bring people belonging to various religions, beliefs and faiths to a common platform!
As many human beings... as many diverse chains of thoughts can there be! Religion was only meant for keeping the flock together... keeping all human beings bonded so that 70 to 80 years of physical manifest life could be lived in a meaningful manner.
Talking of universal religion... we need following path of spirituality... the underlying spirit that exists within every human being! It is path of spirituality that only can bring people from various religions, beliefs and faiths under a common umbrella!
Just as God Almighty can never be reached via path of religion... spirituality forms the common bond between every human being... between different forms of life! By promoting spirituality... understanding fundamental difference between religion and spirituality ... human beings expedited their spiritual progress!
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Permalink Reply by hsnbhatta on
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thoughts take the shape we give.the true spirit has no shape.universal ideas have no shapes.animals have no religions.because they are universals. it is the I RESPONSIBLE FOR DIFFERENCE AND DEATH.
Vijay Kumar said:Every religion stems from following of an enlightened one! With the advent of Gautama Buddha and Jesus Christ, Buddhism and Christianity came into fore! The purpose of uniting religions... unifying all religions would never prove fruitful. Why? It is just impossible to bring people belonging to various religions, beliefs and faiths to a common platform!
As many human beings... as many diverse chains of thoughts can there be! Religion was only meant for keeping the flock together... keeping all human beings bonded so that 70 to 80 years of physical manifest life could be lived in a meaningful manner.
Talking of universal religion... we need following path of spirituality... the underlying spirit that exists within every human being! It is path of spirituality that only can bring people from various religions, beliefs and faiths under a common umbrella!
Just as God Almighty can never be reached via path of religion... spirituality forms the common bond between every human being... between different forms of life! By promoting spirituality... understanding fundamental difference between religion and spirituality ... human beings expedited their spiritual progress!
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religion also happens to be a finding based on human experience.it is true that some one who is more evolved experiences better than others .some one more evolved may have better experience.practicing discrimination on the basis of religion is not correct. having accepted on the basis of hitherto human experience that there is a power beyond nature and human beings we should shun violence.
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Permalink Reply by Graeme Sharrock on -
Would this be a DESCRIPTIVE or PRESCRIPTIVE statement? What do you mean by universal religion? The existence of some common elements to various religions is a widely held belief, but if you are pointing to the variety of religious exeperience, that is also widely known. If you are seeking to PROTECT the free expression of religions, then the UN has already implemented that, although obviously many nations do not follow this. Why a charter? What would we be founding?
Graeme Sharrock
Parliament Media Group
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Permalink Reply by Graeme Sharrock on
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Hi Vijay
What do you mean by a common umbrella? What structure would best express this?
Graeme Sharrock
Parliament Media Group
hsnbhatta said:thoughts take the shape we give.the true spirit has no shape.universal ideas have no shapes.animals have no religions.because they are universals. it is the I RESPONSIBLE FOR DIFFERENCE AND DEATH.
Vijay Kumar said:Every religion stems from following of an enlightened one! With the advent of Gautama Buddha and Jesus Christ, Buddhism and Christianity came into fore! The purpose of uniting religions... unifying all religions would never prove fruitful. Why? It is just impossible to bring people belonging to various religions, beliefs and faiths to a common platform!
As many human beings... as many diverse chains of thoughts can there be! Religion was only meant for keeping the flock together... keeping all human beings bonded so that 70 to 80 years of physical manifest life could be lived in a meaningful manner.
Talking of universal religion... we need following path of spirituality... the underlying spirit that exists within every human being! It is path of spirituality that only can bring people from various religions, beliefs and faiths under a common umbrella!
Just as God Almighty can never be reached via path of religion... spirituality forms the common bond between every human being... between different forms of life! By promoting spirituality... understanding fundamental difference between religion and spirituality ... human beings expedited their spiritual progress!
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Graeme Sharrock said:
it is descriptive by way of prescribing the positive elements of all evolved religions.human understanding has evolved enough to place on charter what binds them together.privacy of religion based on concepts hitherto failing in their attempts to unite us and save us. look at the agenda Muslim countries,christian continents,Hindu states are pushing through their legislation. it is nothing but fractured polity. human rights taken up by UN in a big way has tried to push through the rights of human beings as human beings wherever they be.freedom of accepted religious expressions would make women of the world be in burkhas,if by oil capital its guntrotting protaganists capture the world by proxi. in fact every accepted religion has certain universal principles which a UN CHARTER would collate and declare.Would this be a DESCRIPTIVE or PRESCRIPTIVE statement? What do you mean by universal religion? The existence of some common elements to various religions is a widely held belief, but if you are pointing to the variety of religious exeperience, that is also widely known. If you are seeking to PROTECT the free expression of religions, then the UN has already implemented that, although obviously many nations do not follow this. Why a charter? What would we be founding?
Graeme Sharrock
Parliament Media Group
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Permalink Reply by Devin O'Rourke on -
The problem with asking the UN to issue a prescriptive document that outlines a "universal religion" is two-fold.
For one, it threatens the free expression of religious belief that doesn't fall within a bracketed "universal religion". As Graeme has pointed out, the UN has already declared freedom of religious expression to be a fundamental human right. To then ask them to define what it means to truly be religious would fly in the face of this already established precept.
Second, the UN is terrible ill-equipped to take any kind of prescriptive stance when it comes to religion. The UN is a secular body composed of government leaders and politicians. To then ask these people to venture into the theological field and make very difficult decisions regarding the universal character of religion, a conversation best left to theologians and religious leaders, would be problematic to say the least.
There have been charters and declarations issued in recent decades that call for cooperation between the world's religions and operate on common, universal themes. One of these was a document issued at the 1993 Parliament drafted by Hans Kueng titled "Towards a Global Ethic: An Initial Declaration. Another was the recently issued statement at the 2010 World Religions Summit that coincided with the G8 Summit in Canada titled "A Time for Inspired Leadership and Action."
So, it would seem something on the scale of what you're calling for has already taken place, though external to the UN, which I believe is the best route. These interfaith coalitions and their statements should act as ADVISORY resources to the UN only, however. To ask the UN to take an official religious stance is wading into treacherous waters that endangers religious freedom around the world.
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