tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post6727780700167181292..comments2023-11-03T11:37:04.473+00:00Comments on nothing new under the sun: Starting with Christ: the limits of neutralitybyron smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-28307924075481498682008-11-17T11:05:00.000+00:002008-11-17T11:05:00.000+00:00Joel - Thanks for the link. I am not familiar with...Joel - Thanks for the link. I am not familiar with that Charter and a quite look at the website might not be enough for me to get a feel for what it might be trying to do. In general, I think that joint projects can be great and finding areas of overlap is often productive if done sensitively. However, the attempt to say that all religions are at heart on about the same thing ("compassion" or byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-77559630804856368812008-11-15T02:39:00.000+00:002008-11-15T02:39:00.000+00:00Byron, what do you think of Christian participatio...Byron, what do you think of Christian participation in crafting a global charter for religious harmony, as Karen Armstrong advocates? See: <A HREF="http://charterforcompassion.com/" REL="nofollow">Charter for Compassion</A>. Is this transgressing the appropriate limits of neutrality, a "myopic relativism," or is it a Christlike gesture of <I>passio</I>?joel hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03680719551624473328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-7428870266835488252008-11-14T09:08:00.000+00:002008-11-14T09:08:00.000+00:00No problem. It was a post that I thought might be ...No problem. It was a post that I thought might be two or three lines when I read the von B quote, but just kept growing.byron smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17938334606675769903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28189019.post-15311176859129566962008-11-14T01:21:00.000+00:002008-11-14T01:21:00.000+00:00thanks for this Byron.More helpful than you can im...thanks for this Byron.<BR/>More helpful than you can imagine in some of the ideas I am currently trying to wrestle into submissiongbroughtohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04835374770367316112noreply@blogger.com