Larry Rowe speaks on the Baha'i Faith: THE POST THE IRANIAN.COM MODERATOR CENSORED
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several Baha'i sects vie to be recognized as the one and only true
Baha'i sect? Where the Haifan Baha'i sect refuses to even recognize
the very existence of other Baha'i sects, claiming that because those
sects have so few adherents they are insignificant and virtually non-
existent.
How is it that the lofty ideals and concepts that are supposedly
central to Baha'i belief have been left in the dust in a blind pursuit
to raise one version or another of a supposedly inviolable Baha'i
covenant over the several other versions of that Baha'i covenant which
are all held to be sacrosanct by those Baha'is who hold to those
particular versions?
Why is it that respect for the diversity of religious interpretation
is missing amongst all Baha'i sects? Why? Because a respect for the
diversity of religious interpretation was not held or practiced by the
founders of the Baha'i religion.
Although the founders of the Baha'i religion gave lip service to the
principle of the oneness of religion they failed to recognize that
they themselves were responsible to apply such principles in their own
lives. Mirza Huisayn Ali - Baha'u'llah failed to do this in regards to
the Babi/Bayani faith and it's followers, Abbas Effendi - Abdu'l-Baha'
failed to do this in regards to his own half brother Muhammad who
chose to hold to a more unitarian interpretation of Baha'ism.
When exceptions are made to the oneness of humanity it is no longer
true oneness, it is the same old same old religious exclusivity that
has been practiced by religionists since the beginning of organized
religion. When there is no respect for a true diversity of religious
interpretation religion falters, it then becomes more of a source of
disunity than it is source of unity; more of a bane to humanity than a
boon.
The present situation amongst Baha'i sects is a case in point. Of
course Haifan Baha'is will discount this reality stating that all
other Baha'i sects are insignificant and unimportant. While each
Baha'i will blindly cleave to their own religious interpretation all
along allowing those interpretations to make a mockery of any pretense
of a true belief in the oneness of humanity, the oneness of human
spirituality.
What is the source of this profound dysfunction? The founders of the
Baha'i religion themselves. Men who had words stating that shunning
had been abolished, that humanity should no longer see others as their
enemies, drawing lines, that the former religious practice of dividing
humanity had been removed; while all along out of the other side of
their mouths came contradictory words, hypocritical words, counseling
their followers to engage in the very religious practices they had
supposedly left behind. What you see here is the result of these
contradictory and hypocritical religious teachings and religious
practices.
If Baha'is of all sects truly believe in the oneness of humanity,
truly believe in the oneness of human spirituality, they will have to
leave the immature, ignorant, and contradictory religious practices of
the founders of their religion behind them. They will have to truly
embrace religious diversity, as well as diversity of religious
interpretation and not see such diversity as a threat to their chosen
orthodoxies but as genuine and healthy expressions of human
spirituality. Until this occurs the Baha'i Faith as a religion will
continue to be more of a source of disunity than it is a source of
unity and humanity would be better off without it.
Cheers
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> http://www.iranian.com/main/blog/nur-i-azal/larry-rowe-speaks
Note the initial blog was taken down less than two minutes after it
first went up. As should become apparent by now the Iranian.Com
moniker "Nothing is Sacred" is a complete farce. Islamophobia of all
shades and versions are celebrated whereas the slightest criticism of
Bahaism is met with immediate censorship.
IRANIAN.COM where the Baha'i faith is sacred and Islamophobia is
rampant!
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> http://www.iranian.com/main/blog/nur-i-azal/larry-rowe-speaks
The second blog was taken down in exactly the same amount of time.