This could be useful, especially if one can apply a more rigid notion
of fulfillment of prophecy. Where you have a prophecy which clearly
designated as a prophecy, and where it is clear what conditions would
satisfy the prophecy and what would not. But very very very few
prophecies are like that.
Dear Ron Stephens
Dear brother
I do not know you at all so anything I write is in a deep sense addressed to
my own humble self but you have been the stimulus. Your letter has been the
stimulus. The letter dated
http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist/m43098.html
Let me put my points as numbers
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 19:44:16 -0500, Ron Stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To be honest with ourselves, there are no objective criteria to make a
fail-safe choice of religion. There are many good religions available
to choose from. And agnosticism is a fine choice also; after all, more
harm
And singling out scholars for special
condemnation in that fashion could easily degenerate into (or already
is) anti-intellectualism.
Dear Gilberto,
I'm not sure what 'fashion' you mean here, mine. Brent's or Baha'u'llah's.
;-} But I agree that the anti-clericalism in the Baha'i community can
In this day and age, and from now on, religion is a choice. Maybe it
wasn't this way when the Islamic armies swept across the middle of
Eurasia. Maybe it wasn't this way in Medieval Europe when there was an
Inquisition. But now, most people can choose to join any religion
they want to, or no
Ron, Ron, Ron. What are we going to do with you? Can you not see how you
employ some of those same 'hard core verbal techniques of persuasion' you
imply others use? But I'll get back to that.
The same Iqan also, in numerous places, resorts to *logic* and common
sense* and *science* as
