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And thank you...
...for taking the time and trouble to write it! An area of interest to me - and your article is exceptionally well-written and edifying.
posted by
LapisLazuli
on December 6, 2005 at 4:40 PM
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Oh, and one more thing...
I forgot to mention that the reason the squabbling in the Baha'i faith does not receive greater attention is that it isn't a high profile religion. While child-abuse scandals in the Catholic Church garner front page headlines due to the size of the Church, the squabbling of the Baha'i faith's adherents are not newsworthy because it's so obscure.
posted by
kidnykid
on September 26, 2003 at 7:10 AM
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I've addressed your questions in another entry
I added an entry explaining, to the best of my admittedly limited ability, why Baha'is are persecuted in Iran in particular.
I'll grant that it's not a good thing to see Baha'is persecuted, to put it mildly. But it just seems to be human nature to squabble. No matter how well-intentioned people like Baha'u'llah and Muhammad - both of whom were trying to re-unite people after prior religions had degenerated into squabbling factions - might be, people seem still to want to divide themselves, to distinguish themselves one from the other.
posted by
kidnykid
on September 26, 2003 at 7:06 AM
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Obscure yes, but also interesting
Thanks for your informative articles on Ba'hai. I went to a Ba'hai group meeting in college, out of curiousity. Didn't learn much, but it seemed to be a very enlightened, peaceful, and all-inclusive doctrine. Now you have taught me more. Interesting about the squabbles of the leaders, and how they ended up with no Guardian. I bet they will figure out a way to change the rules and have a Guardian again.
As far as I know, Ba'hai has never persecuted their own or other believers. But they have been persecuted severely in Iran, the birthplace of Ba'hai. The Ayatollahs have tried to wipe the Ba'hai faith out completely in Iran. I do not know if they have succeeded or not. Perhaps you could devote a blog to that.
posted by
GoldenMean
on September 25, 2003 at 7:24 PM
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