Dear Ben,
It seems I have made some exagerations by writing "re-reviewed by dozens of
people, councils, assemblies..."
SORRY for this!
What I meant is that I sometimes feel worried when I see so many warnings at
the beginning or at the end of some Baha'i writings.
examples given: "this text has been translated by the X committee, reviewed by
the Y committee, approved by Z, and might be later corrected by ZZ..." or, on
the other hand, "this text is only a personal translation and must not be
considered as an official bahai publication and must be considered as a
personal point of view..."
These kinds of warnings make me think that there is a real danger for Bahai
Faith to turn into dogmatism (like the Vatican giving the Imprimatur for
advised books, the Nihil obstat for books with nothing against the official
faith, but also writing at the Index books such as the DaVinci Code, considered
as going against the official believes and so forgiven to the believers).
We must take care about freedom of believes, thoughts and speeches, for
everyone!
;-)
Loïc
----- Original Message -----
From: Benjamin La Framboise
To: Baha'i Studies
Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: limits of hikmat, righteous warfare, jihad, etc.
Dear Loïc,
It doesn't appear to me that your simple example >>> A simple word of the
Faith : the "Bayan", which could be easily translated in french by "l'Annonce"
or "l'Explication", but people are so afraid to translate that they keep the
"Bayan" in their writings.<<< is, at all, an example of >>>baha'i publications
that have been reviewed, corrected, validated, re-reviewed... by dozens of
people, councils, assemblies... and this very hierarchic system of validation
sometimes gives some texts with so many cares that the simple sense of the
original text becomes impossible to understand!<<<.
Do you have any other examples in which this has happened (not the avoidance
of translation, but the reviewing, correcting, validating, re-reviewing by
dozens of people, councils, assemblies, to the point that the sense of the
original text became impossible to understand)?
Just curious,
Ben
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