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-----Original Message----- From: Fran Baker <fran@gershwin.dgii.com> Newsgroups: alt.religion.bahai Date: Monday, August 03, 1998 11:43 AM Subject: Re: fw Ron House Rejected by the Moderator: soc.religion.bahai > > >>>Suzanne Gerstner wrote: >>> >>>> First I'd like to say something though. Personally, the subject line: >>>> "Baha'i Wives to Obey Husbands" bothers me tremendously because it's >>>> very misleading, so to balance it, I've changed it to say roughly the >>>> opposite. :-) Taken out of context the first sounds very "old world >>>> order". It gives the wrong impression about the principles of the >>>> Baha'i Faith. There are people who know nothing of the Baha'i teachings >>>> on the family, consultation or the equality of the sexes who could draw >>>> a wrong conclusion from this subject line without ever really >>>> investigating further. > >The mentality expressed here, that of dressing up Baha'i tenets and history >for consumption by potential Baha'i converts (often to the point of >misrepresenting and downright lying) is one of the cancers in the body >of the Faith. It is also harmful to the intellectual and moral health of >the individuals who engage in it, to use another phrase, it is bad for >the soul. It also tends, in my observation, to seep into other part of >one's life. It is ironic to think on Bahaullah's (I think it was his) >warning about not trusting an atheist because someone who could lie about >god could lie about other things. Just another Baha'i irony. >The other poison is the concept and treatment of "covenant breakers." >Between the two (putting on a good face to get converts and declaring/reviling >covenenant breakers), it has to make you wonder just what tortured >relationship the Baha'i Faith has with the ideas of truth and human >brotherhood. > >--Fran (<---member of an obsolete religion that does not, with very rare >exception, convert or excommunicate.) Homepage |