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I think I made this comment on another thread but I find it interesting to look at religious diversity in very secular countries. Like, technically my nation is very secular. There is a super firm church vs. state separation and honestly I feel like being devoutly religious is looked at as...

Yeah, because pretty much the only thing I've seen you do is be mean to people lol (although I joined almost two years ago and never interacted with you at all before recently, by the way). But that's fine with me! Next time I see you bullying someone I'll just ignore you and report you instead...

I was paraphrasing. The gist of the message is 'happiness is a choice'. You knew exactly what I meant. Nope, you’re a just straight up mean person. I really don’t care how long you’ve been here, because my complaints have nothing to do with the site, but your behaviour. Nothing can give you...

I don’t agree with anything he’s arguing but iirc scholars do assert Yahweh is in fact the name of a very ancient deity. I don’t know if he was a war deity but he was a deity in a pantheon. I know it’s lazy to cite Wikipedia, but Wikipedia cites actual scholars if you want to see the sources...

I'm laughing at the completely uncalled for rudeness and arrogance.

Hmm, I guess there's not much else to say. My faith and a lot of other people's faith doesn't include Baha'u'llah and I just can't agree with the suggestion that that is a bad thing, or damaging. I have a relationship with God outside of Baha'i (or any organized religion at this point), and I...

I feel like there's some prior incident or experience that you're upset about, but I never mentioned anything about privilege or racism. My initial comment was solely commenting on the fact that I don't like the old idea of 'you're only as happy as you allow yourself to be' because I don't...

I never said you were privileged.

This just seems like a curmudgeonly "kids these days" rant. It's an exaggerated strawman. Where did anyone say anything about the things you're ranting about here? I hate "pull yourself up by the bootstraps talk" because it ignores that there are actually things like the cycle of poverty and...

But other faiths don't damage humanity. Not accepting Baha'u'llah does not damage humanity.

I hope I have never come across as belittling your faith or acting as if it is insignificant. I apologize sincerely if I have. But sometimes I feel you are belittling faiths that do not accept Baha'u'llah, as less valid than Baha'i. Not to mention non-Abrahamic faiths that don't accept any of...

I appreciate you being honest about it, but I think that's kind of unfortunate. You cannot stomach other people's beliefs if they contradict your own? Because there are beliefs that reject "any of the Messengers". All belief systems outside of Baha'i reject Baha'u'llah. I don't think you'd have...

Who is enabling who? And enabling them to do what lol?

Amen. Can't stand the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" attitude.

Basically, I don't think any of us have an issue with seeing comparative religious discussion. I think that's a big part of anything interfaith. It's proselytizing that is the issue.

I definitely get what you're saying. I think the issue is that this is an interfaith website. So doctrinal clashing should be expected to some degree. I guess people can stay in the subforum for their religious group if they don't want to see doctrines from other religions, but even within every...

There is a comparative religion forum. But this forum is meant to be for religious discussion that doesn't just center on one faith, I believe. I think Tony posted this here and not on the Baha'i forum on purpose. Which is fine, as long as this doesn't become an attempt to spread Baha'u'llah's...

Although more on point to the OP, I feel like we are a very angry generation on both sides. And forgiveness is not a virtue we possess in abundance.

My generation (Gen Z) definitely is very radically left-wing but interestingly enough there are lots of people my age who are more conservative than our parents, myself included. It's not as prominent, but it's growing.

Nope, I'm good. Just pointing out how tired of an insult it is.