Freedom of Thouts

Freedom of Workship

Respect of the other

These principles are today the foundation of modern democracy, the fruit of evolution of thought, of culture, of scientific progress. They are the principles on which modern society is founded.

We can go back to the past, deeply rooted inside us, we can think of what great and illuminate people had to say about this.

Zarathustra (VII-VI sec.a.c.:) Man can chose between good and evil, between asha and drug. Men must also remember to respect the other person so as not to incur in the wrath of God.

Confucio (551-479 a.c.)
Don’t do to others what you do not want to receive yourself.

Buddha (V sec. a.c.)
Don’t do to others what hurts you

Mahabharata (profeta indù IV sec.a.c.)
Don’t do to others anything that you would not want to be done to yourself and would cause you harm.

Hillel (predicatore ebreo I sec.a.c.)
What is hateful to you do not do to others.

Gesù (il Nazzareno)
Do to others what you would want others to do to you

Maometto (570-632 d.c.)
Love for your neighbour what you love for yourselves

Dettato Massonico
Do to others all the good that you would want to receive yourself

NORTHERN IRELAND
Ten years of tension between national catholics and protestant unionists?

BOSNIA
Tensions between muslims and Croatian catholic and Serbian orthodox minorities.

KOSOVO
Fights between the albanian muslim majority and the Serbian orthodox minorities.

UCRAINA
Tensions and fights between united catholics and orthodox faithfuls.

REP. ASIATICHE ex URSS
Frequent fights between orthodox believers and muslim.

CIPRO
Turk muslim nationalists against orthodox Greeks.

LIBANO
Tensions and homicides between Christians, Muslims and Druse.

ARMENIA
Iraqi Turks National army in open conflict with the Christian minority.

IRAN – IRAQ
Tensions between the Site and Sunnite Muslims.

IRAQ
Tensions between the Sunnite minority and Site majority including also Siro Caldei Christians.

ISRAELE – PALESTINA
Daily violence between Jews and Palestinian fundamentalists.

EGITTO
Attacks by the Islamic Fundamentalists against the Muslim society.

ALGERIA
Frequent violence between groups of Islamic Fundamentalists against all foreigners and also against the Muslim Society.

GUINEA
Tensions between Muslims and Christians.

NIGERIA
Fights between Muslims and Christians.

CIAD
Tensions between Muslims and Christians.

SUDAN
The Islamic Government against Christians and Animists of the Southern regions.

ETIOP
Tensions between Muslim and Christian guerrilla, Orthodox and Copt.

KENIA
Tensions between Muslims and Christians.

TANZANIA
Tensions between Muslims and Christians.

AFGHANISTAN
Islamic Taleban Militia against Mujaheddin Islamic tribes.

PAKISTAN
Tensions between the Site and Sunnite Muslims involving also Christians.

INDIA
Indu against Muslims and Christians – Siks against Hindu.

SRI LANKA
Frequent fights between Buddhists and Hindu.

CINA
Government orders repression of Buddhists in Tibet, of Catholics and of believers of the Falun Gong sect.

BANGLADESH
Recent tensions between Muslims and Buddhists.

BIRMANIA
Recent tensions between Muslims and Buddhists majority.

THAILANDIA
Frequent tensions between Muslims and Buddhists.

FILIPPINE
Fights between Christians and Islamic Fundamentalists.

IDONESIA
Fights between Chinese Christians and Muslims.

TIMOR EST
Fights between Christians and Muslims (peace today).

FIGI Island
Fights between Christians and Muslims.

These are the news that hit public opinion and are headlines for the news as they involve political and economic issues.

How many more tensions and fights occur by race or religion?

This is justified only through ignorance, thirst of political power, economic control, veiled racism, cultural difference. One word suffices: ignorance.

The teachings of the great and illuminated Masters of our faiths of a different thing, all be it , varied in the language, and in the geographic differences. The teachings are inspired to the same principle: love the others and respect them.

In their teaching the belief “Know the other to know yourself “ is obvious and apparent. Also, if we meditated on the poem “If” written by Kipling the Mason and frequently hanging off the walls of our offices we would perceive the importance of his human essence forgetting his spiritual side.

G.Simonetti