The Golden Rule is a universal guide to every religion in the world. We are to treat another just as you want to be treated. To think that one person is better than another, above another in importance, or to be treated differently due to social or economic status fit not this universal law. The Golden Rule is a high ideal. The worth of an ideal gains value only as it is put to practice. --Dennis Ginoza
The Golden Rule in Ten Major Faiths
Christianity:
“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you;
for this is the law and the prophets.” Matthew 7:12 (NRSV)
Hebraism (Judaism):
“What is hurtful to yourself, do not to your fellow man.”
Mohammedanism (Islam):
“No one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what
he loves for himself.”
Buddhism:
“In five ways should a clansman minister to his friends and familiars—
by generosity, courtesy and benevolence, by treating them as he treats
himself, and by being as good as his word.”
Confucianism
“Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.”
Hinduism
“Do not to others, which if done to thee, would cause thee pain.”
Sikhism:
“As thou deemest thyself so deem others. Then shalt thou become a
partner in heaven.”
Jainism
“In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all
creatures as we regard our own self.”
Zoroastrianism:
“That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another
whatever is not good for its own self.”
Taoism:
“Regard your neighbor’s gain as your own gain and regard your
neighbor’s loss as your own loss.”
