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Hi ... We could all go on for months debating exactly who on the list is a
benign influence on the world and who isn’t. We all have thinkers and scholars
whom we admire and others whom we detest. I suppose any or all the members of
Howse’s list could qualify as “unskilled practitioners” referred to in
Gleanings:
“Witness how the world is being afflicted with a fresh calamity every day. Its
tribulation is continually deepening. From the moment the Suriy-i-Ra'is (Tablet
to Ra'is) was revealed until the present day, neither hath the world been
tranquillized, nor have the hearts of its peoples been at rest. At one time it
hath been agitated by contentions and disputes, at another it hath been
convulsed by wars, and fallen a victim to inveterate diseases. Its sickness is
approaching the stage of utter hopelessness, inasmuch as the true Physician is
debarred from administering the remedy, whilst unskilled practitioners are
regarded with favor, and are accorded full freedom to act. ...The dust of
sedition hath clouded the hearts of men, and blinded their eyes. Erelong, they
will perceive the consequences of what their hands have wrought in the Day of
God. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Informed, as bidden by One Who is the
Most Powerful, the Almighty.
(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 39-40)
Yes. Undoubtedly the people on Howse’s list do have varying degrees of
influence on the world and its peoples, some good, some bad. This is news??
On the other hand, Howse is one of those mad, ultra-right-wing Christian
conspiracy buffs for whom all intellectuals are radical who are not building
arguments advocating Christian fundamentalism and belief in literal fulfillment
of New Testament prophecy. He would undoubted say that all Muslims and all
Baha’is are unknowing dupes and slaves of the Beast, except of course for the
leaders who are Knowing dupes and slaves. This is interesting?
Oh well...
Peace,
Gary
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