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Now why wasn't that objection raised when the question was asked rather than when it was answered? isn't there an inherent unfairness there? And it isn't enough that others spoke of their understanding - my contribution was authentic, not a duplication. Indeed was it not the very individual...

I recall a rabid interfaith person some years ago - who constantly promoted understanding and equality of religions and respecting them all. He had not heard of the Baha'i Faith until that moment. Turned out he was horified the idea that the religions were all inherently equal was pure anethema...

Because fundamentalism fundamentally limits answers to pre-existing literal answers, and one must and can only explore truth for oneself which cannot really be anything but an organic exploration for oneself, arriving at various emphasized topics or angles at any particular time. Or, put...

Look up "string theory". Basically there has been success explaining the fundamental forces by appealing to mathematical relationships. This is far too simple but the process of addition is like elecricity, subtraction is like magnetism. So Electromagnetism is like adding and subtracting (don't...

That's more than a bit too casual I think. Perhaps you haven't done this for long but have you ever seen participation in interfaith discussion areas as a great way to convert people?! Seriously - is there anywhere where one is likely to run into people more rooted in what they beleive than in...

I would offer that to the extent the religions are about and adhere to the eternal verities then they truly, absolutely, are equal. A good Baha'i is of him or her self no better than a good Christian or .... In the same vein the respect for the position of the Founder and the Source of their...

Actually it was 'Abdu'l-Baha who said its reason would becomes clear as the noon day sun. One angle I propose for consideration is that if women and men truly are equal then it doesn't matter what pattern of men or women are in the position of authority. There is a suposition based on the...

Maybe it was a DVD :-)

Don't forget the earlier connections - Abraham's third wife, Keturah, goes to the land from which Zoroastrianism later arrived. Then during the period of Diaspora in Babylon the Zoroastrian and Persian King Cyrus the Great was lead by the right hand by God according to the Old Testament. Then in...

This prayer is one of the most common and usually in the preface or title pages of prayer books: Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place, and the city, and the heart, and the mountain, and the refuge, and the cave, and the valley, and the land, and the sea, and the island, and...

Now that doesn't seem to hold water from how I've seen every religion do it's thing. Ceremony isn't ceremony! Priests are justified as the only proper means of accomplishing various Rites as it were, no? These are not presented as mere play! They are the Path of Salvation it is claimed!

Though Scot covered the topic well, there is another angle from which to view the same issues, which I wish to offer: It is certainly so. No other reason than this is responsible for the suffering of Baha'is in most of the Moslem world than this issue. I have maintained in other...

It occured to me that one could investigate the Baha'i Faith in another way than has been done of late. We have tried to cover various theological issues, scriptural issues, historical issues and the like. But what kinds of things do Baha'is pray about? Of course we are, as everyone, well...

As has been repeatedly said, we do not. Other than by memorization, how would you know it if it was in your hands? How were the Jews to see the truth of Jesus? How were the arabs to know the words of Muhammd were in fact God's words, not his own? How? Now apply that standard to the Babi...

False choices. There is no inherent way to convince anyone of anything. Logic has a certain amount of reach, and other things can be convincing to some and not others. Even more, being taught the truth is no guarantee that it will be recieved. We each get to decide, for ourselves, what we...

As much as we cannot understand or percieve true reality unvarnished, in the same breath, we cannot escape it. I do not need to imagine it. I'm in it, deaf dumb and blind. But I wish to make a difference in the few dimensions I have access to, so that as part of the whole, no change is...

And such oppression as has been documented even in more recent times and has been eulogized even as the annivesary of that suffering also approaches. These are faces worthy of note. Mona: Angel of Shiraz http://bahaiworld.com/content/video/mona_angel_of_shiraz.wmv...

This is not a "Baha'i" website. This is at a university in Michigan- specifically with Dr. Juan Cole at the helm. Dr. Juan Cole is not a Baha'i - at best he is a respected scholar in the field of study which includes the Baha'i Faith. As pointed out elsewhere Dr. Cole has used material of...

My wife, when dealing with racism issues, speaks of "institutional unity" in responce to institutional racism. The idea is that the good is not an accident. It must be planned for, cultivated, nutured, taught. The same thing should be in the business world. Law is insufficient but necessary...

I also note bahaiawareness relies on quotes from Nuqtatul Qaf, aka Nuqtat al-Kaf . This "book" has a pedigree, and books aught to have only an author. It seems that some element of truth might be in the text but it has certainly been altered and amended. Some scholars are trying to sift...