Re: The shallow and hollow Faith


The Baha'i solution when shown a truth they cannot face up to with
intellectual integrity: make up excuses which are quite obviously
vacuous and or call those that show them that truth "enemies".

This although Abbas Effendi ( Abdu'l-Baha') himself stated: "Let them
see no one as their enemy, or as wishing them ill, but think of all
humankind as their friends; regarding the alien as an intimate, the
stranger as a companion, staying free of prejudice, drawing no lines."
*

Quite obviously such words of Baha'is are only empty rhetoric. Did
Baha'u'llah see no one as his enemy, did Abdu'l-Baha see no one as his
enemy, did Shoghi Effendi see no one as his enemy, does the UHJ see no
one as their enemy, do Hasl and All Bad see no one as their enemy?
Quite
obvious such words expressing the teaching of the oneness of humanity
are empty and without meaning on the lips of Baha'is, even the
founders of Baha'i!

When people embrace ignorance in order to protect contradiction and
hypocrisy they are cultists who would rather remain in the darkness of
that ignorance instead of dispelling that darkness with the
illumination of truth. Baha'is are such cultists.

The true enemy of humanity has ever been such ignorance. Vanquish your
true enemy, embrace the truth; that is if you have the courage and
intellectual integrity.

Making excuses for the building of a hanging garden to rival ancient
Babylon's in a country in a water crisis, in a country where many
Palestinians go without a proper daily source of fresh drinking water.
Making excuses for the building of a grandiose temple in India when
the people of India are in such dire need of food and proper medical
care. Such excuses quite obviously ring hollow. Why? Because when
cultists put the prestige and self interests of their cult before
helping their fellow human beings how can such excuses not sound
hollow?

Yours

Larry Rowe

*For this reason must all human beings powerfully sustain one another
and seek for everlasting life; and for this reason must the lovers of
God in this contingent world become the mercies and the blessings sent
forth by that clement King of the seen and unseen realms. Let them
purify their sight and behold all humankind as leaves and blossoms and
fruits of the tree of being. Let them at all times concern themselves
with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to
someone love, consideration, thoughtful help. Let them see no one as
their enemy, or as wishing them ill, but think of all humankind as
their friends; regarding the alien as an intimate, the stranger as a
companion, staying free of prejudice, drawing no lines.

(Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of Abdu'l-Baha, p.
1)

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