Baha'i -- What have you done for me lately...or ever?

Policy said:

She?

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Vinayaka said:

The Baha'i Faith is really small, and in no way can go all out and build hospitals and the like due to their size.

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KWED said:

It seems she was executed for Bahai proselytising rather than for promoting education in general.

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TransmutingSoul said:

I am now very sorry I insulted her and the other 8 women martyred, bringing that story to your attention.

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KWED said:

Mona Mahmudnizhad.

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Policy said:

Ah. You must be responding to someone I have on ignore.

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KWED said:

She was an Iranian Bahai who was executed for promoting Bahaism in post revolutionary Iran. @TransmutingSoul gave her as an example of a Bahai who fit the description of a social progressive in your OP.

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Vinayaka said:

The Baha'i Faith is really small, and in no way can go all out and build hospitals and the like due to their size. If they maintain a building in a large city, that's quite the expense right there. Religion isn't cheap. There are definitely costs to it. That said, some individuals of various faiths and non-faiths can be and are very charitable with time and money. Most are rather humble and don't say much about it, as they don't see it as some contest to see who can be the nicest. Older larger faiths can and do do a lot more as groups. Here in my city we have various established churches who run charities, like the Salvation Army, Catholic Social Services, or the Sikh langars. Each Sikh gurdwara here probably has at least 2000 regular attendees, and hence have huge numbers to draw on. The Baha'i faith, OTOH, probably has less than 100 people total, and they do own a building. Lots of the Baha'i money also goes to the NSA of Canada for various organisational things and paid staff. So it's not easy at all. At one time I found a list of LSA's in Canada and had read the finances. The Canadian government keeps track of charities and expenses, and it's all public knowledge.

Editted to provide link ... National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Canada

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Policy said:

I am not looking for huge outlays of cash, Vinayaka. That would be something, but it would be the least impressive effort. What I am looking for is investment of time and energy (over the lifetime of the religion) in material action and active participation that reflects a support of their claimed principles of supporting social equality and justice.

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Vinayaka said:

The time and energy is put to promoting the faith, in various ways. That's what my actual independent investigation showed. These days a lot is put into retaining members as well.

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KWED said:

What a strange thing to say.

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KWED said:

She was an Iranian Bahai who was executed for promoting Bahaism in post revolutionary Iran. @TransmutingSoul gave her as an example of a Bahai who fit the description of a social progressive in your OP.

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