Re: Newsflash: Shoghi Effendi Excommunicates his entire family

The concept of enmity with any faith is not new, has been and will be there, for the spiritual disease can not be entirely eradicated. I am not sure what your current convictions are, but claiming to be upholder of the truth, by your own deductions, reflects but little of what may lay beneath your self-righteousness.

Your cherry picking quotes from Abdulbah and interpreting them to serve your desire would not give validity to your assertion as an upholder of intellectual integrity, left alone the truth. One may wonder, if you perceive words of Bahai central figures as empty and with no merit then why had you so insisted to be accepted into the faith? Unless you act as a disingenuous hypocrite who likes to find himself inline with the opposition fashion on this show.

You pick a quote or a theme and build your premise around it, not knowing or ignoring the circumstances and the context within which that writing had been applied to. Abdulbaha wrote about 140 thousand pieces of books, tablets and letters which I doubt very much you'd grasp the meaning of at least a few.

You may enjoy having enemies, yet ignorant of the fact that no one would harm you more than yourself. People not living up to the standards prescribed unto them is indicative of their weakness, not a fact to their fallacy. If followers of religions were to live up to the prescribed standards then Adam and Eve would have still be living in haven and we would be in no need of Abraham and the rest. Though your enmity towards the cause is an act of fallacy, yet can be overcome with repentance.

Have you also heard, "today only the pure and sincere in heart are accepted"?
Abdulbaha says: don't wish them ill. Bahaullah says: the end is unknown. I have not noticed any Bahai here wishing you sickness or ill fate; on contraire, all hope that you overcome your idol fancy and resign to the will of God. That is called well wishing. We don't see anybody targeting your current religion telling you of the fallacy and empty rhetorics of its founders. Then how are we your enemies, rather you want us to be your enemies.

Responding to animosities towards the faith is entirely of another nature which doesn't make me your enemy though you may perceive it as such.

"diamondsouled" <rowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The Baha'i solution when shown a truth they cannot face up to with
intellectual integrity: call those that show you 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, does Shahrir see no one as his 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.

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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