The Baha'i way of The Seeker Of White Light

[Spirit of Light]

This is the way I am seeking

The principles which guide Bahá'ís in their interactions with the outside world are the same high moral values that have been taught in all of the world's major religions: love, compassion, courtesy, charity, faithfulness, honesty, trustworthiness, and humility.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

This is the way I am seeking

The principles which guide Bahá'ís in their interactions with the outside world are the same high moral values that have been taught in all of the world's major religions: love, compassion, courtesy, charity, faithfulness, honesty, trustworthiness, and humility.

Good starting points. But there is a difference between good and all the other words as to you as you versus how you do a we in the everyday world for which I and everybody else than you are not really in the outside world for some cases.
We are doing do different version of objective, inter-subjective and subjective when we don't agree.

 

[Eddi]

This is the way I am seeking

The principles which guide Bahá'ís in their interactions with the outside world are the same high moral values that have been taught in all of the world's major religions: love, compassion, courtesy, charity, faithfulness, honesty, trustworthiness, and humility.

Sounds good to me

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

Sounds good to me

Well, it is a start, but how to do it practice, is where the differences emerge.

 

[Vinayaka]

Speaking about charity isn't charity. Speaking about honesty isn't honesty. Actions always trump words.

 

[F1fan]

How does a follower know if what they are being taught is actually moral? If a person thinks they need to follow a religion then how are they capable of discerning good teachings from bad ones? If we saw an amazing moral consistency among religious people and religious doctrines that we could justify blind faith, but we don't. We see many immoral teachings common in religion, and many immoral theists, so that system doesn't work any better than a non-believer who learns to think, and trust their own moral sense.

I suggest that followers are suseptible of becoming immoral agents for some religious dogma, and they won't question the immoral rules because the believer has surrendered their own moral authority over to a religion. I suspect some believers and followers realize the emptiness that comes with being a follower because it allows little freedom and personal responsibility to BE moral.

 

[dybmh]

love, compassion, courtesy, charity, faithfulness, honesty, trustworthiness, and humility

Courtesy and humility would include deferring to those in other religions regarding their own scripture.

 

[mikkel_the_dane]

Courtesy and humility would include deferring to those in other religions regarding their own scripture.

Or other views that don't believe in scriptures.

 

[syo]

love, compassion, courtesy, charity, faithfulness, honesty, trustworthiness, and humility.

In paganism, it's honesty.