{"id":3690,"date":"2010-01-24T08:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2010-01-24T08:04:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T16:04:13","slug":"more-mush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/more-mush\/","title":{"rendered":"More Mush"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This time from Catholic theologian Hans K\u00fcng, the co-author of a new book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/arts-and-culture\/books\/23801\/kung-fu\/\" target=\"_blank\">reviewed by Adam Kirsch in <em>The Tablet<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>How to Do Good and Avoid Evil<\/em> is, in fact, the fruit of one of K\u00fcng\u2019s major ecumenical projects, the \u201cDeclaration toward a Global Ethic\u201d produced by the Parliament of the World\u2019s Religions, a conference held in Chicago in 1993. K\u00fcng drafted the declaration, which lays out four \u201cirrevocable directives,\u201d ethical principles upon which people of all religions can supposedly agree. They are \u201cCommitment to a Culture of Nonviolence and Respect for Life\u201d; \u201cCommitment to a Culture of Solidarity and a Just Economic Order\u201d; \u201cCommitment to a Culture of Tolerance and a Life in Truthfulness\u201d; and \u201cCommitment to a Culture of Equal Rights and a Partnership between Men and Women.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He\u2019s a joker, that K\u00fcng, but then I suppose you have to be to take seriously something called the Parliament of the World\u2019s Religions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/01\/blurring-the-faiths.html\" target=\"_blank\">H\/t: Andrew Sullivan<\/a>, who highlights a different\u00a0aspect of Kirsch\u2019s review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This time from Catholic theologian Hans K\u00fcng, the co-author of a new book reviewed by Adam Kirsch in The Tablet: How to Do Good and Avoid Evil is, in fact, the fruit of one of K\u00fcng\u2019s major ecumenical projects, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/more-mush\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[446,442],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3693,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions\/3693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}