The Baha'i Studies Listserv On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Gilberto Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > Anyone who used to be a member of religion A but isn't anymore is an > apostate from religion A. So Nima is an apostate from the Bahai faith. > If I remember correctly you are an apostate from Christianity. Spinoza > was arguably an apostate from Judaism. And if a person was Muslim at > one point but is no longer Muslim now then they are an apostate from > Islam. That';s just what the word means. > > Similarly, in terms of Islamic law, kaffir means "non-Muslim".
> Calling a Bahai an apostate or a kaffir either applies or doesn't. The > important thing isn't the term. It is the treatment (which is the > point you ignored from my response). Hardly, I pointed out that apostasy carried the death penalty. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[email protected] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] 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/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
