Runlikethewind
Monk in Training
Greetings followers of Bahá'u'lláh. I've recently taken up an interest in learning more about your faith and have a few questions I'd like to ask. I've been tooling around your website ( The BaháâÃ* Faith - The international website of the BaháâÃ*s of the world )reading up on things but I figured it would be nice to speak to someone directly too.
My first question is that I noticed the claim was made that Baha'is see revealed religion as the chief civilizing force in history. How would you defend that claim against assertions that religion breeds violence and atrocities done in the name of God? I'm Catholic and our history is full of problems. I get this argument from atheist/agnostic types who say religion is bad and reason, science, and rationality need to take over, that the world would be better if religion just died out altogether. In light of the history of religion how can it be the chief civilizing force?
I have more questions but maybe I'll just ask one at a time if that is cool?
My first question is that I noticed the claim was made that Baha'is see revealed religion as the chief civilizing force in history. How would you defend that claim against assertions that religion breeds violence and atrocities done in the name of God? I'm Catholic and our history is full of problems. I get this argument from atheist/agnostic types who say religion is bad and reason, science, and rationality need to take over, that the world would be better if religion just died out altogether. In light of the history of religion how can it be the chief civilizing force?
I have more questions but maybe I'll just ask one at a time if that is cool?