The Baha'i Studies Listserv I have been avidly watching this conversation unfold, as the question of CB sites had come up just days before.
I subscribe to Google alerts for Bahai articles and videos. Some of the sites I've visited look absolutely legitimate but still, I get a funny feeling. Often, I can't identify anything what feels wrong. I, too, am a relatively isolated believer with no LSA. There are a handful of us scattered across two counties but in different incorporated & rural areas. Although we keep the calendar together, we can't form a group. Our oldest member - in her 90s! - brought up the topic at last Feast. One of the group served several years on the Arc project in Haifa but she had no idea who is our ABM for Protection. (I've since learned by writing an old friend.) I would appreciate clear guidance on how to recognize the wheat from the chaff! I don't want to assume wrongly about a dedicated soul trying to share the Faith, but there is so much out there. I've been a Bahai 15 years with no easy access to a wide variety of materials until recently - the internet in the last year. I feel somewhat anxious wandering loose on the web because I'm old enough to understand how subtle and insidious the damage can be! I'm very grateful I was well grounded in my faith before finding these questionable "sources" - how would I know which to trust as a new believer when I don't know even now? Kathryn "Dedicate the precious days of your lives to the betterment of the world". ~ Bahá’u’lláh "I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve." ~ Albert Schweitzer www.bahai.org On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:31, Brent Poirier <attor...@cybermesa.com> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > > The danger in reading Covenant breaker sites is often not that the person > will be in danger of following these groups; it is that they destroy one's > faith. The confusing answers of Mr. Grey, and his statement that he is > leaving religion altogether, make the point very clearly. > ' > One of the most malicious slanders of the Faith is the comparisons of the > Learned to the East German stazi or other tyrannical regimes. This prevents > the believer from seeking support from the people most capable of giving it. > > As to the person who supposedly met a grandson of Abdu'l-Baha, whose father > broke the Covenant, and through whom he did not claim to be a Guardian. This > makes absolutely no sense. The children of Abdu'l-Baha were all daughters. > > It is more likely that it was a great grandson, and possibly one of them > was, for a time, faithful to the Covenant during the conversation he had > with the believer you know. But now all of the male descendants, down to > the present day, are out of the Faith (or at least that was the case up to a > decade ago when I asked a House member). > > Brent > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:allaboutjoye1...@gmail.com > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto: > leave-523726-2241165.3afeac45296046c4e2352da3d7e8d...@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...@list.jccc.net > > > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu > > > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-523789-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@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...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
