Subject: Re: House warning on Covenant extremists and fundamentalism / Re:
From: Ron House <house@usq.edu.au>
Date: 1998/04/22
Message-ID: <"WJH32B.A.B1H.KqrP1"@bounty.bcca.org>
Newsgroups: soc.religion.bahai
Spiritual Warfare
Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 10:44 PM
Eric D. Pierce wrote:
> It is my understanding that no Baha'i institution can require a person
> who wants to be a Baha'i to state belief in God as a condition for
> membership, so I doubt that Mr. H's less supportable "criteria" has much
> validity.
This is true. Abdul-Baha was asked point-blank by Dr Forel,
who didn't believe in God, and he didn't say no. In my own case
I have told the Universal House of Justice point-blank that I don't accept
the
infallibility of ANY figures in the faith, and they haven't
told me to leave.
--
Ron House
house@usq.edu.au
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but
because people refuse to see it. -- James Michener, "Space"
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