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From: Ron House <house@usq.edu.au> To: bahai-faith@makelist.com <bahai-faith@makelist.com> Subject: Re: [bahai-faith] FW: Notifying srb posters of censorship Date: Tuesday, June 23, 1998 2:15 AM Island Business Center (Bill Hyman) wrote: > > Dear Mr. Glaysher: > > I think most of the posters to soc.religion.bahai know that it is moderated, > and they like it that way. > I have an aversion to the posting of Covenant Breaker material on a channel > which has the name of > the Bahai Faith. As you know this has happened on this unmoderated channel. > > Bill Hyman I think Bill's losing the plot. The point, as I always understood it, of the Baha'i Faith, was to make the world a better place, to tell people that God had sent a new manifestation, and to practice His teaching of love and tolerance. But to Bill, it has all shrunk down to a petty question of stopping Baha'is reading covenant-breaking material - in spite of the fact that the UHJ has said in writing that Baha'is should not try to censor the CB'ers. Make no mistake, Bill isn't simply 'shunning' the CB'ers, he is trying to stop others from reading their work. Why else would he object to posting links that others COULD follow (but don't HAVE TO follow) that contain references to CB material? All he is authorised to do, as a Baha'i, is not read it himself, yet he tries to stop others locating it of their own free will. Instead of a gospel of love, it has become nothing but a control-freak thing. -- Ron House house@usq.edu.au Utopia (n): The rule of law without the rule of lawyers. ---- List Archive: https://www.findmail.com/listsaver/bahai-faith/ To Subscribe: e-mail to bahai-faith-subscribe@makelist.com To Unsubscribe: e-mail to bahai-faith-unsubscribe@makelist.com -- Start Your Own Free Mailing List at https://www.MakeList.com ! Homepage |