Running Head: The Charter for Compassion 1 The Charter for Compassion Jiayi Zhu English 111 Professor Gerald Maki 01/17/16 Introduction Today, the world’s biggest question that lingers through the minds of many people is the need for having religions in our societies even if they are failing to accomplish their main duty of fostering unity and love. Among many discussions from his book, (Frazer, James, 2009),clearly states that religion is a thought of faith, practices or interests that a particular group upholds so dearly that all the members of that group are expected to behave in a given way. The major religious groups in the world today include; Christianity, Hinduism, Islamic, Judaism and Buddhism. All these groups have nearly different belief systems from each other in their forms of worshipping. Part one: Situation Analysis Karen Armstrong’s TED Talk, on the subject of “the charter of compassion”, she defines religion as an act of behaving differently. She also brings a clear view and comparison on the religious practices of the early century and the practices and beliefs of the current generation. In her quest to bring out the sense of religious conflicts, Karen, states how one religion despises another religions’ beliefs simply because they are not in line with their own belief hence resulting into quarrel. She talks of religion as being the tool that leads us to compassion and then with compassion our different religious beliefs take us to a common God. Furthermore, she talks of the universal religion where we are to show compassion to everybody. Hence, in order to accomplish the golden rule which needs us to do to others what we would want them to do to us, the different religious groups need to unit with one another and treat each other with and treat one another with love. In her conclusion, she gives a way forward for the charter for compassion to help people to reclaim their religion and use as source of love. The golden rule of religion. Today, the world’s biggest question that lingers through the minds of many people is the need for having religions in our societies even if they are failing to accomplish their main duty of fostering unity and love. Among many discussions from his book, (Frazer, James, 2009),clearly states that religion is a thought of faith, practices or interests that a particular group upholds so dearly that all the members of that group are expected to behave in a given way. The major religious groups in the world today include; Christianity, Hinduism, Islamic, Judaism and Buddhism. All these groups have nearly different belief systems from each other in their forms of worshipping. Religion without rules and regulations ends dividing people since everyone practices what they believe are the best for them without caring for the rest who do not believe in their religious practices. The most important rule that can bind all the re.