On Sun, 7 May 2006, Gilberto Simpson wrote:
> On 5/5/06, Tim Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Hello Janine,
> > > He feels that the Bahai faith is just a
> > > reiteration of Islam, nothing new.
>
> I don't like absolute claims and so I probably wouldn't say that there
> is *nothing* new. But the Bahai faith and the Babi faiths definitely
> had antecedents within Islam. (most immediately, there was the Shaykhi
> movement for instance) The Bahai faith didn't spring out of a vacuum.
>
>
It's true that the Baha'i Faith did not spring out of a vaccum. Neither
did Islam nor any other religion for that matter. Religion, or the
Revelation of God, is a continuum.
>
> > Baha'u'llah forbids religious warfare, Muhammad
> > did not forbid this.
>
> The Bahai writings allow for something called "righteous warfare" and
> I've never heard a convincing explanation for how it is significantly
> different from other just war theories in a moral sense.
>
> -G
>
Warfare conducted in the name of religion and/or conducted to covert
others into your religion is prohibited in the Baha'i Faith.
Righteous warfare or just war is a totally different issue. Neither the
motivation nor the purpose is religious.
Iskandar
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