Author: Khoren Arisian
Khoren Arisian is senior leader emeritus of the New York Society of Ethical Culture. This essay is adapted from his address “The Fire Within: Religion, Prophecy, and Politics Today,” delivered on April 29, 2007.
Ethical Humanism as a Religion for Today
As we all unhappily recognize, the leading ethical conundrum of our time is the ill-fated, pre-emptive war in Iraq. We have helped to make a complete hash of that nation, as if its people had not lived in sufficiently humiliating submission under a cruel and despotic ruler for the preceding thirtyfive years. Why go to …