Dear Marlene, The main reason I stopped posting a few months back is because I ended up regretting half my posts because they were not well thought out, so I felt it more appropriate to observe silence. I am getting that feeling acutely again.
My post was misplaced because it followed so closely upon the discussion as to whether or not people afflicted with their disease deserved their disease. I could not agree with you more that the idea that HIV positive patients deserve their disease is disgusting. (My other life is that of a physician who has many close and warm friendships with people suffering from these illnesses.) I also do not believe that there is any support in the Writings for such a view (thankfully!)- the judgemental view that you and I both deplore. The point I tried to make is that the Writings do occasionally express naturalistic events in a metaphorical way as coming from God. I think the idea here is that God is the "causer of causes" and that everything that happens is part of His Will. My post was a feeble attempt to merge these metaphorical expressions with naturalistic explanations on some level. Thank you, Marlene, for the integrity and intelligence of your posts. I will keep reading them with interest! Kendal ---------- You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.jccc.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bahai-st news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (public)
