My wish: The Charter for Compassion

TED 2008
Karen Armstrong: My wish: The Charter for Compassion  (script)
Summary
There are opinions on the pros and cons of religion. However, some religions seem to be connected with them. If you study other religions, you'll rethink what religion is and you can look at your own faith in a different view. Among them, the word "belief" means to love, prize and hold dear, "I believe" means that "I commit myself" and "I engage myself." 
In all religions, people are taught that religion is about behaving differently. First, you do something before you believe in Got, or not. You behave in a committed way, and then you begin to understand the truths of religion. And then, pride of place in this practice is given to compassion. It's because in compassion, people feel with other, they dethrone themselves from the center of their world and they put another person there. When they get rid of ego, they are ready to see the Divine. You must not confine your compassion to your own group or nation. You must concern for everybody, love your enemies and honor the stranger. You have to know each other beyond tribes and nations.
However, those wonderful things are being lost, because of human ego. Religion has been used to oppress others. It's judging other people and putting other people down. Religion is used by terrorists to hijack. It's become a tool and cause of world wars. 
Now, is the time to recover real compassion. Religion should be made to be a force for harmony in the world. It has also the Golden Rule which says to us that "Do not do to others what you would not have them do to you." It's not only a religious matter and a spiritual matter, but also an important moral matter.
The speaker works for all religions in the world can have real compassion. It'll make religion a source of peace in the world. It should be.
Words in this story
charter / sanction, authority
compassion / mercy, sympathy
propagate / to spread
preliminary /prɪˈlɪm əˌnɛr i/ introductory, initial, opening
bureaucracy /byʊˈrɒk rə si/ governmnet
doctrine / belief, teaching, creed
dethrone / remove (a ruler, especially a monarch) from power.