Interesting name, Golden Rule.

The Golden Rule is a perfect guide for living ones life and it is found in all major religions.

Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
      Matthew 7:1
Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.
      Udana-Varga 5,1
Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.
      Sunnah
Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.
      Talmud, Shabbat 3id
Hinduism: This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you.
      Mahabharata 5,1517

Must be something to it if it is found in all of them.  Interesting name, Golden Rule.  

The world is changing...

War has never made sense to me.  And then when it is a war of religions it makes even less sense.  A poster from the 60's was a picture of a flower and the caption in large letters, "War is not healthy for children and other living things."  Well, Duh......
With versions in every major religion and philosophy the idea of treating someone the way you would like to be treated is common sense but it is so rarely followed that we had to give it a special name.  THE GOLDEN RULE
The world is the way it is because up until recently that is the way we were to learn.  How can we know about love unless we know the absence of it?  How can we know courage unless we know fear?  Things are changing.  We can learn from the past.  We can know about God.  We will learn how useless war is and how it makes sense to treat someone the way you would like to be treated.   The world is changing. 

Choose to do unto others....

Were you aware that most of the major religions of the world have in their sacred scriptures a version of the Golden Rule that is so similar that it reads almost the same?  The Golden Rule is a very logical statement about treating people the way you want to be treated.  It is so logical that not following it does not make sense.  Check out the comparisons:
http://www.unification.net/ws/theme015.htm
and  http://www.teachingvalues.com/goldenrule.html
So why are religions always fighting each other?  Could it be a human factor in there somewhere?  And don’t say “the devil made me do it” because the only devil is the evil that humans are capable of.