On Religion and Global Ethics Can religions develop or help develop ethics agreeable to people on a global scale? We need first to look for ethical commonalities and differences among the religions of the world. Many of the ethical issues at hand now are very different from when the "great" world religions were constructed and developed, and I cite most particularly here environmental and population issues, and issues relating to hierarchy and oppression, beginning with the status of women and extrapolating outward to all other others: social, racial, non human life and so on. We must cons...
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