That's not exactly what I'm asking. Some practices and beliefs of some of the ancient religions I don't think should have been tolerated. For example the beliefs of the not so ancient
Aztecs.
The
Aztecs worshipped many gods and goddesses... The Aztecs believed that every day they had to take part in rituals and acts of worship to please the gods and allow the sun to rise again, and the seasons to pass. Huitzilopochtli, the sun god and the Aztec god of war, was very important in the day to day religious practices of the Aztecs... the Aztecs believed that he needed the blood from human beings’ hearts. This need for human hearts completely shaped Aztec society, and meant that the Aztecs were constantly at war in order to take captives to sacrifice... If there weren’t enough prisoner-victims, local Aztec people were sacrificed...In addition to Huitzilopochtli, other Aztec gods also demanded human sacrifice. Children were drowned to satisfy
Tlaloc, the rain god, for example.
So what I'd like to know is if Baha'is allow for and believe that some religions were very much something made up by the culture and people. Like with the example of the Aztec religion, it is a long way from fitting into the Progressive Revelation concept of the Baha'i Faith. When the Aztecs were conquered it was, religiously speaking, much better that the Spanish forced Catholic Christianity on them.
Now Catholic Christianity kind of fits into the Baha'i idea of a religion being based on a manifestation's teaching, but then getting things added into it. But, for the Aztecs, to believe a messenger from the one true God gave them a message... then it devolved into a belief in many gods that needed human sacrifice, is hard for me to believe. It would mean that God left them with their bloody religious rituals for probably centuries without additional messages. Then, the message they did get, that changed and put an end to their old religion was Catholic Christianity? A religion that believed in original sin, hell, Satan and demons, that Jesus rose from the dead and was God. And no doubt, many of the ancestors of those Aztecs still believe those things. That would mean that God is allowing several generations of people to live and die without the knowledge of his real truth.
We don't have too many people believing religions with bloody rituals anymore. But we do have all the major religions that teach things that the Baha'is say are not true. And, assuming that the Baha'is are the truth for today, are Baha'is obligated to point out the errors in the beliefs of the other major religions? 'Cause it seems like Baha'is do exactly that. They have told Hindus that reincarnation is not true. And they tell Christians that Jesus didn't rise physically from the dead and is not part of a trinitarian god... and there is no Satan.
So how to you tolerate the differences, and how do you consort with people in other religions with love and respect, while at the same time Baha'is believe those religions are teaching things that aren't true?