Sunday, August 4, 2013

The Golden Rule of Major World Religions

Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517
Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Jesus Christ, Matthew 7:12
Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for himself.Sunnah
Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.: Udana Varga 5:18
Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.: Talmud, Shabbat 31:a
Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.: Analects 15:23
Taoism: Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.:T'ai Shag Kan Ying P'ien
Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself. : Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5
"Further generations will find nothing "ethical" about twentieth and twenty-first century "Judeo-Christian" ethics; they will find the morality in this system equivalent to that of Christianity in the Dark Ages, ever dark indeed!" -  Gary Amirault
 "Truth is treason in the empire of lies"  - Ron Paul

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