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A Voice for Earth American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter 1St Edition Pdf FREE A VOICE FOR EARTH AMERICAN WRITERS RESPOND TO THE EARTH CHARTER 1ST EDITION PDF Peter Blaze Corcoran | 9780820332116 | | | | | | First Edition Books I don't think that we should take the word of the ECI about endorsements. The web site is promotional in nature and the comments are self- serving. I'm not saying it's not true, but we can't rely on this. If the Pope said that they claim he did, there should be a reliable third party who will confirm this. See verifiability section on questionable sources. Diderot's dreams talk28 February UTC. Here is another example of what I'm talking about. The ECI says that the EC is "endorsed the thousands of organizations representing millions of people", and it's been put in the article. I have searched for hours looking for endorsements, and they are not easy A Voice for Earth American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter 1st edition find. I put the one's I found in the article. Now representing millions of people is proven: the U. Conference of Mayors and a few big cities shows that. But my search has turned up dozens, not thousands of organizations. The ECI website doesn't seem to have a list with these thousands. There's a blog, but that only has a few. Mila, if your organization has a list, can you point it out to us? Anyway, this may show the wisdom of not taking big claims by organizations that are promoting the thing the claim is being made about. Diderot's dreams talk5 March UTC. If one looks at official Church websites, including the Vatican, or anywhere else for that matter e. Catholic news sourcesthere is absolutely NO evidence that the Church endorses the Charter. The person who makes that claims should prove it, or else remove it from Wikipedia, in my opinion. The writer provides a copy of a document not even written by the Pope. Furthermore, according to the claim, Gorbachev is introducing the Charter. There is no evidence that the Pope has even seen the Charter yet when that note was alleged to have been written. Its a pretty huge claim to say that the Pope has approved the Earth Charter. Please Wikipedia Make the writer prove that or remove it. Thank you!!! Since the visit was specifically about the Earth Charter, it is obvious that this is what the Pope referred to the "work that he Gorbachev did". I'm Catholic myself, and have send this document to some of my friends who are priests, they have not raised the concerns that your A Voice for Earth American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter 1st edition does. Claiming the Charter is "useful" in the lead is POV. While many would agree about its usefulness including myself, I'm environmentalistit's certainly not a neutral statement, thus conflicting with Wikipedia's NPOV policy. You can say that "X considers the Charter useful" or similar, but just saying "it's useful" without qualification is making an interpretation and thus is original research. Wikipedia's copyright policy means we can't just cut-and-paste from sources that are not free-content-licensed and that have not given special permission for Wikipedia to use their text because that violates copyright law. The bits in question that I reverted were direct quotes from the webpage I gave in the edit summary A Voice for Earth American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter 1st edition may itself be based on other Earth Charter materials, which I would assume are also copyrighted. The policy does not mean that we can't consult primary sources and include information from them or that we can't quote sources. It does mean that the information needs to be rewritten in one's own words which should probably be done anyway since primary sources are inherently POV and that direct quotes need to be indicated as such. Now we could just add quote marks and a citation for what I removed, but that just makes them bare quotes without any supporting context and would make the majority of the section one giant quote, which I submit is not POV and also seems unprofessional. So, to summarize: Feel free to add back the information in the edits I deleted, but please rephrase it into your own words first. To whomever keeps adding text allegedly written by me: You have no right to print comments allegedly made by me, and A Voice for Earth American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter 1st edition right to print false accusations about me. Print your own comments please and leave me alone. This is just more proof about how creepy Earth Charter sycophants can be. You're going to bring about world peace? You can't even be peaceful on Wikipedia. This whole Earth Charter project is "utopian dreaming without any real content. Bill's response to Vladimir, December 29, I'm sure that anyone can plainly see what is going on with this article. As it stands now, the article is nothing more than a propaganda piece for the Earth Charter Initiative. Let us be clear, while some random and dissenting comments may remain temporarily in this discussion page, all dissenting or different opinions, statements, links, etc. Fortunately there are alternative sites about the Earth Charter on the Internet where people can read varying viewpoints that you can't delete and freely decide for themselves. Jake talk. Its truth and application to the Earth Charter movement is self evident. It means no more than this. This 'Kingdom' is said to be the goal of history that has to be attained. This is supposedly the real task of religions: to work together for the coming of the 'Kingdom. This sounds good; it seems like a way of finally enabling the whole world to appropriate Jesus' message, but without requiring missionary evangelization of other religions. It looks as if now, at long last, Jesus' words have A Voice for Earth American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter 1st edition some practical content, because the establishment of the 'Kingdom' has become a common task and is drawing nigh. On closer examination, though, it seems suspicious. Who is to say what justice is? What serves justice in particular situations? How do we create peace? On closer inspection, this whole project proves to be utopian dreaming without any real content, except insofar as its exponents tacitly presuppose some partisan doctrine as the content that all are required to accept. But the main thing that leaps out is that God has disappeared; man is the only actor left on the stage. The respect for religious 'traditions' claimed by this way of thinking is only apparent. The truth is that they are regarded as so many sets of customs, which people should be allowed to keep, even though they ultimately count for nothing. Faith and religions are now directed toward political goals. Only the organization of the world counts. Religion matters only insofar as it can serve that objective. This post-Christian vision of faith and religion is disturbingly close to Jesus' third temptation Our main criticism of the secular-utopian idea of the 'Kingdom' has been that it pushes God off the stage. He is no longer needed, or else he is a downright nuisance. But Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God, not just any kind of kingdom. Schooyans, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences and consultant to the Pontifical Council for the Family - two pontifical councils. Citations are provided on the CCC website. I apologize for reprinting it here, but I don't know how else to address Vladimir's allegations. Jake talk29 November UTC Two popes now have directly criticized the ethics of "this form of globalization," and I have provided portions of their statements on the CCC website. Jake talk29 November UTC. There was only one Commission on Global Governance. Maurice Strong was a member. In addition, there is only one notable global document that is touted as providing the new global ethic behind the new global government which they refer to as "governance" that they have publicly called for, and that is the Earth Charter. This is not a conspiracy theory, which is another allegation directed at CCC by Vladimir; The information from these group's own websites is available for everyone to see. Officials of the Catholic Church generally do not mention the Earth Charter by name. They are, however, highly critical of the ideas and ethics proposed by the Commission and the Earth Charter Initiative. The Church has spoken out numerous times against such a new global ethic. When the Church criticizes ideas like a new global ethic without God, or a new global super-State, it it fairly obvious that they are criticizing the same ethics of the Commission on Global Governance and the Earth Charter Initiative. Why not let people read the Church's criticisms, and let them decide? He has repeatedly deleted any references and links to any opposition to the Earth Charter. When I restore the information, Vladimir promptly deletes it again. In the spirit of free knowledge, and Wikipedia's intent to "provide links to guide the user to related pages with additional information," I will restore the link to the CCC Earth Charter page, and I hope that the editors of Wikipedia will respect true freedom of information and seek a more balanced article about the Earth Charter. It wouldn't make sense to repeat all of this material here in the Wikipedia article.
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