I remember in a 10000 + thread offering to explore other meanings of popular held beliefs and passages from all scriptures, using the keys given by Baha'u'llah,
@InvestigateTruth has also posted threads to initiate this.
@Tony Bristow-Stagg - the reasons that a secular humanist is what she is - common themes of
kindness to the fellow man and
worship of the divine and
charity - will be common since these are aspirational virtues. I had posted earlier an example of the exact same quotations from Matthew 6:26 and lines from the SGGS - so what - are you now going to plead that Christianity and Sikhism are similar? Those sorts of coincidences are common - there was an entire discussion of "daswandh" ; "tithe" and "zakat" and
@sooda pointed out that the concept of charity was encouraged and even enforced by Babylonian kings at the dawn of recorded history in the middle east.
Whereas Bahai'ism has 7.5 million adherents is fine - but please - do not try to make it out to be "the latest and greatest" - it simply is not - there are way too many flaws and IMHO too close a relationship to Islam for there to be anything "new" about it. The sooner you accept that Baha'ism is one more in a buffet on offer for the informed citizen to choose from - rather than the hard sell which I see you and
@InvestigateTruth driving towards - I suppose the easier it will be for individuals like myself to partner with rather debate against you
Or can you not let go the proselytizing as part of an Abrahamic faith?
Proselytizers, OTOH, believe it is right, even duty, to 'correct' everyone else
There you go - similar thoughts posted almost simultaneously - there was a video posted in the Atheist DIR but
@SomeRandom that showed a loud American missionary being told politely and not so politely to "shut up" in Australia - precisely because he thought he was trying to save them.