A Challenge to the leaders of all world religions?
There are enormous issues we hear about on a daily basis. There are crisis’ situations all over, such as the frighteningly strong possibility of war against Saddam, and the alarming nuclear threat in North Korea; there are strikes and violence in South America; there are 11,000 shootings in the USA yearly; there are reports of awful sweat shops worldwide producing goods of quality and ridiculously low prices and on and on and on.
Cannot the leaders of the major world religions meet and tackle these issues? These people lead and represent probably 80% of the population of the globe so their power to persuade their followers is ominous indeed. I hope these leaders are doing more than I hear in the news?
As a simple start these could leaders identify the large companies that have their products produced in sweatshops and demand that their followers not buy those products until the atrocious factory conditions are corrected? Have you visited the Dollar type stores and box stores and bought an item for a buck that must be produced at such a low cost as to ensure almost slave labor to produce it?
Lets get a list of these sweatshop- type companies and blacklist them peacefully into fair and equitable production practices. I’m sure our costs will increase at our local stores but that’s a small price to pay for a better world.
A challenge? let’s get on with action
Comments
Nathan D Huening - July 27, 2003 10:41 pm
Interesting premise. The leaders of the Baha'i World Faith (bahai.org) issued a letter addressed to the religious leaders of the world a year ago April in the wake of an evaluation of the tumult of the 20th century. If interested, the full text is available at passingtrees.com/religiousleaders.pdf.
Gareth - August 9, 2003 3:34 pm
Well, why do pepel join sweatshops? Perhaps to earn more money than they would otherwise?
I find it strange that someone could propose that religious leaders could find a way towards world peace, given that these same people are the cause of most of the wars that we enjoy. Now, the melagomaniacs, such as Korea (and Germany 1935, and Russia ( 1939?) are a different story, but Bush???