________________ 10 Global 2000 Revisited: What Shall We Do? What are the traditional teachings--and the range of other opinions--within your faith on the meaning of "progress" and how it is to be achieved? * What does your faith tradition teach about the human destiny? Is the human destiny separable from that of Earth? What is your destiny, the destiny of the followers of your faith tradition? What does your tradition teach concerning the destiny of followers of other traditions? How are we to measure "progress?" Can there be progress for the human community without progress for the whole community of life? * How is personal "success" related to "progress" for the whole? What are the traditional teachings--and the range of other opinions--within your faith tradition concerning a proper relationship with those who differ in race or gender (conditions one cannot change), or culture, politics, or faith? * Much hatred and violence is carried out in the name of religion. What teachings of your faith tradition have been used-correctly or not-in an attempt to justify such practices? Discrimination and even violence by men toward women is often justified in the name of religion. Which, if any, of the teachings of your faith have been used-correctly or incorrectly-in this way? How does your faith tradition characterize the teachings and followers of other faiths? Do some adherents of your tradition hold that the teachings and followers of other faiths are evil, dangerous, misguided? Is there any possibility that your faith tradition can derive wisdom, truth, or insight from the teachings of another faith? What are the traditional teachings--and the range of other opinions--within your faith on the possibility of criticism, correction, reinterpretation, and even rejection of ancient traditional assumptions and "truth" in light of new understandings or revelations? Does your faith tradition envision new revelation, new understanding, new interpretation, new wisdom, and new truth concerning human activity affecting the future of Earth?
