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On Apr 30, 2013, at 17:37, Stephen Kent Gray <skg_z...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> That presupposes enough people will have become Baha'i to make that feasible.
> 
> If a Baha'i society, one with a Baha'i majority, became a non Baha'i one, one 
> with a different religious group in the majority, would the Baha'is step down 
> from power?
> 
> Also, shouldn't it be before 1000 years have passed or 2892? Unless you count 
> Mission of Maitreya, Eternal Divine Path or some other religion as being more 
> recent, wouldn't there be even newer religions by then in 2892 or later?
> 
> Why is an all Baha'i world any more possible any amount of time in the future 
> 1000 - 1000000 year from now than an all Raëlian, all Scientologist, all Neo 
> Gnostic, all Pagan, all Humanist, all Unitarian, all Muslim, all Ahmadi, all 
> Adi Dam, or whatever else possibility?
> 
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> On Apr 22, 2013, at 17:22, Don Calkins <don59...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The Baha'i Studies Listserv
>> They will be a minor part of their responsibilities.  This is going to prob 
>> be 1500 years from now.  Think the difference in civilization btwn Augustine 
>> and now.
>> 
>> Don C
>> 
>> On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:39 08PM, Stephen Kent Gray wrote:
>> 
>>> How will the punishments in the Aqdas get carried out if you that's true? 
>>> If no one is in charge how will people get executed, exiled, imprisioned, 
>>> fined, etc? 
>>> 
>>> The Aqdas looks like it presupposes a kind of authoritarianism you reject. 
>>> Baha'i laws will be enforced because that's what it says. 
>> 
>> 
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>> Understood properly, all man's problems are essentially spiritual in nature.
>> 
>> 
>> 

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