I had decided a while ago that I wanted to use a religious TED talk for the My Search research paper, so I searched TED and found this talk. I really liked it.  Karen Armstrong has an interesting background that makes this talk more powerful.  I agree that the Golden Rule is very important to Christianity, but I do not agree that the Torah is basically the Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," with commentary.  The Torah and Old Testament is so much more than that.  In the New Testament the religious leaders tried to test Jesus to prove that Jesus is not the Son of God by asking Him, "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"  Jesus replied, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."  This is taken from Matthew 22:36-40.  I agree that the Golden Rule should be applied to global politics and relations in general.  She is right that religion is about behaving differently, but I disagree with her statement that religion is not about believing things because you have to believe things that change your life to behave differently.  So the first step is deciding whether you believe in God or not, even though that is not what she says.