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perhaps a quote like this could be illuminating: "Lauded be Thy name, O Thou Who art the Goal of my desire! I swear by Thy glory! How great is my wish to attain unto a detachment so complete that were there to appear before me those countenances which are hid within the chambers of chastity...

Contrary to a comment earlier, Baha'is believe if we shared quotations from scripture, at least with an intent to learn and appreciate and respect, *rather than our own interpritations* then we would have fewer arguments. Baha'is beleive we also stand in need of the Priesthood of God, just...

... Actually I don't think it is a very good point, despite the norms around here. CR is a voluntary place where one should expect to discuss religion. If participation in CR meant one had to convey Christian norms then it would in essence be prosletysing. But it is not. Same for all the...

But there are substantial differences acting as norms in religions. For example, missionary work among Christians almost certainly means a home community is directly supporting a traveler in other lands to bring their own denomination's influence to another land. Baha'is almost never do such...

I would say that they key difference is the context of the effort, and the influence brought to bear on individuals from their religion. "Christians" and "Baha'i" are titles we may like to use as if we know pretty exactly what they mean. I speaking beyond individual differences. But I think...

The Baha'i Faith, and Baha'is, certainly intend to grow, both numerically and in depth with all the ramifications that can result such as a country where the dominant religion is Baha'i. But coersion in belief, whether by social norms, intellectual argument, political pressure, whatever, is...

So how do we compare to the religions of the day when they were 100-150 yrs old? :-)

I don't know a single Baha'i here who agrees with you. While being a new development is of course important to Baha'is for various reasons, it certainly is *not* how we tend to describe ourselves. Most of the scriptural references I can think of about relating our Faith to others empahsizes that...

So that's where you've been. :-) A typo above (I think you mean they moved it out of the "Modern Religions" section.) This kind of response is typical of most interfaith discussion areas - where a stated position attributed to the Baha'i Faith is explained and corrected. As for the Abrahamic...

For what it's worth another pov on his profile is that it is perfectly normal and not "recruiting". He travels and speaks where he has a chance and I doubt very much it has any semblance to a street agitator. Probably he visits in peoples homes and talks to people invited. As for a "weak"...

I suggest this thread - http://www.comparative-religion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3787

Maybe. I think some people treat bridges of understandings as openings for invasion and warfare. Over my years I've built many bridges. I (and a few others) had a long exchange with fundamentalist christians that I think surprised both sides. We came away both sides learning something and...

Yes it's been discussed. There are twleve pages on a thread here much of it about how Baha'is consider Buddha a Manifestation when the nominal pov of Buddhism is there is no god. Buddhism and the Baha'i Faith have been a topic in three threads as I recall. Each time it got into this issue one...

I think others have already said what has to be said and see no progress in this thread any more. If you want to read about Baha'i views about Buddha they've been covered in a few other threads. If you want to see about Abrahamic vs Modern, it's been done in several threads. If you want to talk...

The problem is that we are reviewing the "politics of faith" at the hind end of more than a thousand years since a widely known religious Founder - when the civilization had already peaked many hundreds of years earlier for each of those religions (for Jews the time of David, for Christians the...

I have noticed something of a norm around here, and indeed most every interfaith discussion area - almost never do regular participants explain, defend or even mention the administrative structures and decisions that have been made. People don't seem to identify much with the leaders, whether...

I beleive you oversimplify the situation. Muhammad and Jesus and all the religious Founders didn't just express faith - They defined religion. But religions once established go through ages and cycles and the orthodoxies established can become forgetful and neglectful. This latter part of the...

Even if the overall trends are valid as described, I'm not sure what to do with the interpritation. It could mean that RE leads to lack of religion, or it could mean that one attends church mostly to get religious instruction and getting it somewhere else is good enough.

I agree with both ideas, from what I've read and thought about. On the one hand as the writer way above hints, one cannot percieve lack of time - there would be no way to witness a change that takes place through time (even one's perception that nothing has changed.) On the other hand our sense...