From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Sat Dec 25 1999 - 09:54:36 MST
Sasha wrote,
>After having several discussions with local Bahai, and failing to see
>what exactly God is doing in this relatively decent set of social
>notions, I came to the conclusion that this teaching was an attempt
>to sneak the modern secular ideology into the Moslem world under the
>guise of religion. While providing a good alternative to fundamentalism
>and a somewhat hypocritical excuse of "staying religious" to those who
>need this, for people with already open minds it looks like a particularly
>convoluted way of wasting time...
By the "god-shaped-void" theory, most people have a deep and profound
urge to believe in some sort of religion. Given that, we need some
relatively well-behaved religions about. The choice, at present, is not
Bahai vs. skepticism but Bahai vs. Islam.
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