Who Wants to Be a Good Person?

Published: April 23, 2023, 11 a.m.

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In the ancient Persian slave ghetto, Zoroastrian religion evolved an expression of ethics and eternity that influenced what became modern Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Their succinct description of how to be a good person was the three fold injunction to think good thought, speak good words, and do good actions. I tell my world religion students that this has hardly been improved upon over the centuries but now, in 2023, I am forced to wonder if many people even have being a \\u201cgood person\\u201d as a goal? Dishonesty, self service, greed, all seem to be assumed to be normal conduct.

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