The Baha'i Studies Listserv > Susan, how would consultation work in the overall world rather than just in > the Baha'i community? You seem to forget about all the non-Baha'i religious > texts out there. You also seem to think that any group of people with any > types of religious beliefs can get together and consult with each other and > the result will be that people will naturally never do anything forbidden in > the Aqdas even without the knowledge of the Aqdas.
I assume nothing of the sort and I would never think of imposing the laws of the Aqdas on non-Baha'is. And I suspect I'm more familiar with the religious texts of other religions than you are. > > How are people supposed to use consultation as a model without superimposing > Baha'i religious texts on non-Baha'is? Baha'is don't have a monopoly over the concept of consultation. It has always been an Islamic concept of good governance and when the West became democratic they were essentially adopting this concept as well, however imperfectly. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-697950-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
