Sigh.
The Big Lie Technique yet again!
The Baha'i Faith follows its own scriptures, which command, "Consort with the followers of all religions with joy and fellowship"; and holds memberships in interfaith councils and groups in many (if not most) communities!
Check around for yourselves, and you'll discover this is the case, and the accusatory put-down above mere hatred.
Bruce
And yet the Baha'i Faith can not even allow those who are against the Universal House of Justice to be called "Baha'is" as if they can even copyright a religious tradition in the first place!
Baha'is who are faithful to the Universal House of Justice strictly are told not to participate in former places of worship of the former religions because they are 'former' dispensations. They are also forbidden to partake in world politics, be part of politics, and are not to celebrate other religious holy days such as Vaisakhi or Christmas. Only Baha'i Holy Days are to be followed and implemented, and all these things are found in the Lights of Guidance.
Many Baha'is that I know of, because of their sexuality, had to either a) leave the Faith voluntarily, b) moved towards disenrolling, or c) end up living a double life. I have been told that I was to be separate from those who are not of the Faith, and to continuously 'teach' non-Baha'is to embrace "Baha'i principles" narrowly defined by the Universal House of Justice.
Not only that, but books published by individual members are heavily censored. I still recall that ban on ordering books from Kalimat Press and wondering why they would even cut out such an important source of Baha'i literature for the sake of 'internal and external unity?'
And shunning...
For a Faith in which we are supposed to be critical thinkers, to be independent investigators, and to respect the opinions of others, calling my own experiences and thoughts the "Big Lie Technique" and saying that this is but hatred is, well, pretty dirty.
I still have an appreciation for Baha'u'llah, but the Haifan variety of His religion has become one of the most censoring, monitoring, controlling forms of the Faith that I have ever seen.