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Recent content by Sen McGlinn

  1. Sen McGlinn

    Why Bahai

    The security forces raid Bahai homes to get evidence that the occupants are Bahais. They seize Bahai books and pictures of Abdu'l-Baha and that sort of thing, and phones and computers. The phones in particular are used to identify other Bahais, or Muslims who have contacts with Bahais. The...
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    Why Bahai

    But Bahais do not "insist on proselytizing" . It is the judiciary who says that just saying "yes" if asked "are you a Bahai" is "propagada and worthy of expulsion from school or a year in prison. In all the years i've done these reports, I do not think there has been a single case of actual...
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    Why Bahai

    You seem to have been asking uninformed Bahais ! My website has weekly updates on Bahais who are badly treated. The most recent report is a Bahai released after serving 4 years in prison for teaching IT engineering to young Bahais. Sen's daily and my facebook page has a wider range of stories...
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    Something interesting I found on the Baha'i Faith

    What's the evidence for this claim? That's the only response possible. But in this case I think you may be adding to what your anonymous source is telling you. Which grave is supposed to have been "desecrated" by Bahais?
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    Something interesting I found on the Baha'i Faith

    The first question is, did the Bab refer to "covenant breakers." It seems improbable, and I ran a quick scan and found nothing. Second, having found a source, is to look at the context and see what the Bab was saying.
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    Something interesting I found on the Baha'i Faith

    I don't think he presented evidence: he made a list of claims without any sources. There's no answer to that sort of "argument" . The only response is for you to go back to this individual and say "where's the evidence." However the first point he makes is a dead giveaway. That the scriptures...
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    Something interesting I found on the Baha'i Faith

    This is the only text I know of that does not assume that the couple are man and woman, just "two parties." There's two ways of reading this: that only people who can procreate may marry (which is why old people and infertile people cannot marry - right?) or that having children is desirable...
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    Something interesting I found on the Baha'i Faith

    Many Bahai women don't take it: they tend to be educated and able to speak for themselves, and when Bahai men try tell them that they are "exempt" not excluded, they say just what they think, proving in doing so that they are perfectly capable. I don't think I've ever heard a Bahai woman buy...
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    Something interesting I found on the Baha'i Faith

    It's not certain whether the exclusion of women is a "wisdom" (a hikmat), adopted as a pragmatic solution for a time, or is a permanent exclusion. There are texts about this, and a range of views in the Bahai community about how to read them. Next step is -- given that there are a range of...
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    Something interesting I found on the Baha'i Faith

    The OP has a list of things that Baha'u'llah or Abdu'l-Baha are supposed to have said or written, without any sources. Because they have no sources, no-one can say "he didn't say that" - all we can say is we've not seen it. There's no answer to an unspecified allegation, it's just a slur.
  11. Sen McGlinn

    Something interesting I found on the Baha'i Faith

    Please quote sources, Tony. I think if there was any text saying this, the House of Justice would probably have cited it by now, since they've written a series of messages on same-sex marriage.
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    Something interesting I found on the Baha'i Faith

    I can speak to the first of those many "critiques:" the claim that the scriptures are locked up. They are on the contrary widely published and scanned and reproduced on the internet, in such huge volumes that no one person could read them all. Valuable originals of course are carefully looked...
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    The Baha'i faith

    The term Messiah is often used in the Bahai writings, and almost always refers to Jesus, who is also referred to as "the Spirit." The only exception that comes to mind is where Abdu'l-Baha says : All the peoples of the world are awaiting two Manifestations, Who must be contemporaneous. This is...
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    Baha'is and a new form of discrimination?

    The thing about religion is, everyone "gets" it at their own level, according to their capacity. For me, the first paragraph of the Aqdas that you have quoted here is about the religious value of "works" (the ones the Aqdas goes on to prescribe, such as prayer, fasting, pilgrimmage, inheritance...
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    Baha'is and a new form of discrimination?

    Aaah ... no. There's nothing in the Bahai teachings to say you have to be an enrolled member to be saved. That would be too stupid for Bahai, since all the Bahais in Iran and China and most of the Middle East today are not enrolled. I am not enrolled either. Enrollment is just an administrative...
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