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# **Life Is Sacred — A Shared Human Value** Across cultures, faiths, and philosophies, humanity has affirmed one enduring truth: > **Life is sacred.** Below is a summary of how this belief is expressed across **religious, indigenous, philosophical, and legal traditions** worldwide. --- ## 🌍 **Religious Traditions** ### **Judaism** > “Whoever saves one life, it is as if they had saved the whole world.” > — *Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:5* ### **Christianity** > “God created mankind in His own image…” > — *Genesis 1:27* ### **Islam** > “Whoever kills a soul… it is as if he had slain all mankind.” > — *Qur’an 5:32* ### **Hinduism** > “Ahimsa (non-violence) is the highest duty.” > — *Mahabharata 18:116* ### **Buddhism** > “All tremble at violence… one should not kill nor cause another to kill.” > — *Dhammapada 129* ### **Jainism** > “All beings wish to live. None wish to die.” > — *Acaranga Sutra* ### **Sikhism** > “Recognize all of mankind as one human race.” > — *Guru Gobind Singh* ### **Taoism** * Life is sacred through harmony with the Tao; to destroy life is to break the natural order. ### **Confucianism** * Humaneness (*Ren*) and respect for others are the foundations of ethical life. ### **Zoroastrianism** * Life is a divine trust from Ahura Mazda and must be lived in truth and right order (*asha*). ### **Quakerism (Religious Society of Friends)** > “There is that of God in everyone.” > — *Core Quaker belief* * Quakers hold that all life is sacred because every person carries the **Inner Light** — a direct expression of the Divine. This leads to strong commitments to peace, justice, and nonviolence. --- ## 🌱 **Indigenous and Tribal Traditions** ### **African Traditional Religions** * Life is sacred as part of a living connection between ancestors, the living, and the spirit world. ### **Native American (e.g., Iroquois Confederacy)** > “In every deliberation, we must consider the impact on the seventh generation.” > — *Great Law of Peace* ### **Australian Aboriginal Traditions** > “The land is the life, and the life is the law.” > — *(Yolngu understanding)* ### **Amazonian and Andean Traditions** * Life is sacred in relation to *Pachamama* (Mother Earth), with deep respect for all living beings and natural forces. --- ## 🧠 **Philosophical Traditions** ### **Secular Humanism** * Life has inherent value through shared human dignity, reason, and the capacity to suffer or flourish. ### **Kantian Ethics** > “Act in such a way that you treat humanity… always as an end, never merely as a means.” > — *Immanuel Kant* ### **Albert Schweitzer’s “Reverence for Life”** > “I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live.” ### **Ubuntu Philosophy (Southern Africa)** > “A person is a person through other persons.” > — *(Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu)* * Life is sacred through community, relationship, and mutual recognition. --- ## ⚖️ **Legal and Political Traditions** ### **Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)** > “Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.” > — *Article 3* ### **European Convention on Human Rights** > “Everyone’s right to life shall be protected by law.” > — *Article 2* ### **International Humanitarian Law (Geneva Conventions)** * Even in war, the lives of civilians and non-combatants must be protected. ### **National Constitutions** * Many modern constitutions (e.g. India, South Africa, Germany, USA) guarantee the right to life as a **foundational legal principle**. --- ## ✅ **Summary** | Tradition Type | Expression of Sacred Life | | ------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Religious** | Life is sacred as a divine gift or presence. | | **Indigenous** | Life is sacred through connection to land, spirit, and ancestry. | | **Philosophical** | Life has value through reason, sentience, or moral equality. | | **Legal/Political** | Life is a protected right under law and justice systems. | Across time and geography, **the sanctity of life** is a truth known in many tongues — a principle not only to **believe**, but to **protect and live by**. > **Life is sacred. Everywhere. For everyone.** ---

After being banned from Facebook for reasons not properly explained. i.e. the offending item prompting the ban, I find myself greatful for alternative platforms. To truly address conflict and culpability, it's reason and incentives is highly controversial. Culpability creates liability, liability when enforced prevent the chain of human interaction that enables the acts of mass violence. We see phantoms being created to near hysteria of imagined violence and magic ifs to justify actual violence and it's support. The chain of materialised violence, what inspired it and who is involved economically and politically is ignored. Life is Sacred Vigils communicate to fellow humans whom may in principle agree with the sense, offers an alternative way than war crimes, ethnic cleansing, labor exploitation, poverty and environmental destruction. We endeavour to find alternative pathways so that unarmed members of the human race may be heard and valued in customary relationship.