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From the Ted Talk by Karen Armstrong: Let's revive the Golden Rule
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But you know you'd never know it a lot of the time, that this was so central to the religious life. Because with a few wonderful exceptions, very often when religious people come together, religious lerades come together, they're arguing about abstruse denoctirs or uttering a council of hatred or inveighing against haosxeimlotuy or something of that sort. Often people don't really want to be compassionate. I sometimes see when I'm sipenakg to a congregation of religious people a sort of mutinous exsroeispn crossing their faces because people often want to be right instead. And that of course defeats the object of the exercise.
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But you know you'd never know it a lot of the time, that this was so central to the religious life. Because with a few wonderful exceptions, very often when religious people come together, religious _______ come together, they're arguing about abstruse _________ or uttering a council of hatred or inveighing against _____________ or something of that sort. Often people don't really want to be compassionate. I sometimes see when I'm ________ to a congregation of religious people a sort of mutinous __________ crossing their faces because people often want to be right instead. And that of course defeats the object of the exercise.
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- homosexuality
- expression
- speaking
- leaders
- doctrines
Original Text
But you know you'd never know it a lot of the time, that this was so central to the religious life. Because with a few wonderful exceptions, very often when religious people come together, religious leaders come together, they're arguing about abstruse doctrines or uttering a council of hatred or inveighing against homosexuality or something of that sort. Often people don't really want to be compassionate. I sometimes see when I'm speaking to a congregation of religious people a sort of mutinous expression crossing their faces because people often want to be right instead. And that of course defeats the object of the exercise.
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