For a happier New Year, we should listen to the core messages of all these great religions, above all the Confucian golden rule that we should never do to others what we would not like to be done to us. What religion should teach us is not how to hate, but – to borrow again from Confucius – how to develop societies that look after and welcome the poor, the stranger, and the oppressed.
要想在新的一年中生活得更加愉快，我们应当听取所有伟大宗教的核心教义，特别是儒家“己所不欲、勿施于人”的金科玉律。 宗教教会我们的不该是仇恨，而是——再次借用孔子的名言——如何建设照顾欢迎穷人、外来者和被压迫者的大同社会。