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[Tiger Beer]

Anyone know someone who is Baha'i?

I'm not, but curious about people's opinions on Baha'i.

[itaewonguy]

[Bibbitybop]

I read some Bahai texts and it sounded like a good, peaceful religion. In Denver is stumbled across a Bahai temple and went on Sunday. I didn't find anything special about the service, maybe I was expecting something more mystical. I'd recommend it to people soul searching and looking for something new.

[twoofus]

My bestie grew up being Bahai. I think her parents met in the NWT and found each other through the Bahai faith - they were both a bit on the alcoholic side until they converted (I think Bahai's believe something to the effect of drugs and alcohol stealing a bit of your soul?).

She was Baha'i until she left the house and started exploring other options. Her parents divorced in part because of the religion when her dad got a bit fundamental with it and her mom opted for other pastures...

They were a bit hippie too, but it always seemed like a relatively decent religion to me - I remember that backbiting or gossiping was considered a 'sin,' which I always thought was a pretty cool belief. And at least one reason why I wouldn't be Bahai. Yay, gossip!

[cobright]

Bahai is a universalist religion. Most religions are just Gods way of reaching out to/sending messengers to different groups of people.

If I remember right they are conscientious objectors to war (could be mistaken). And they believe in a voluntary income cap and hope to redistribute wealth.

If you have a friend or family member that has suddenly started going look into it (if you care) to see if the particular church is on a cult list. If not it's a fairly safe religion as a whole. I say look into the cult list thing only because, Like the Mormons, there are many spin-offs with very different beliefs.

[NoExplode]

I love Bahai, especially the way they do their burritos.

[tomato]

For a long-time, I attended informal Baha'i meetings (called "firesides," even if there wasn't a fireside.)
I thought that the Baha'i Faith might be true.

However, one of their prophesies was that by the year 2000, there would be a worldwide cataclysm "the like of which the world has never known." One-third of the world's population would be killed, including almost all of the White race.

When January 1, 2000 rolled around, I looked out the front door and didn't see anything different. That was when I decided that the Baha'i Faith was a false religion.

The Baha'i Faith claims to have safeguards against schisms. There have been splinter groups, but none of them ever attracted many members. When Shoghi Effendi, the latest individual leader, died, Mason Reemy, a guy from Quincy, Illinois, claimed to be appointed by Shoghi Effendi. When he died, his followers split in half because there were two people claiming his successor. Then when one of those contenders died, HIS followers split in half because there were two people claiming to be HIS successor. There is also a group called the Free Bahai's, which claim that the founder did not have in mind a formal organization, but rather an loosely knit circle of co-believers.

The vast majority of Baha'is follow a nine-member group called the Unversal House of Justice, which meets in Haifa, Israel.

[Adventurer]

I am not all for the idea that Bahai is basically supposed to be the last prophet after Mohammed the prophet of Islam. It is more liberal than contemporary Islam. It does have some good ideas, but a friend of mine left the faith after he became disenchanted with it for some reason. I can't remember why.

[Tiger Beer]

[uberscheisse]

a good friend of mine is a very observant bahai and one thing she explained to me is that bahai offers a very modernist interpretation of ancient texts - which allows for all sorts of things that archaic religions such as christianity don't, i.e. homosexuality. sounds good to me.

[onepence]