It is written:
"it is not for individual believers to limit the sphere of the
Guardian's authority, or to judge when they have to obey the Guardian
and when they are free to reject his judgment."
It is also written:
"The infallibility of the Guardian is confined to matters which are
related s
Dear Tim,
I find your definition of capitalism way too under-specified to allow
me any evaluative judgement of capitalism. You wrote:
By this [the word 'capitalism'], I mean simply an economic/political
system in which People who run businesses own the means of
production,
and employ workers
On the death penalty, it seems to me that we can't infer from the
fact that Baha'i laws makes room for the death penalty to the
conclusion that we should not object to any current state giving
itself the right to kill its citizens.
Jerome quoted from the US NSA:
Baha'u'llah provides for capit
Mark,
You wrote in response to David's question:
What several longitudinal studies suggest is that premarital sex is
a reasonably good predictor of extramarital "cheating." Therefore,
extramarital sex is sometimes an intervening variable between
premarital sex and divorce.
Interesting. Am
Dear Don,
Forgive me for intruding on this very learned conversation between
you and Susan, but I was struck by your response and the distinction
between interpretation and word play. You wrote, in order to reject
one of Susan's arguments by finding a different status for the
original words:
Hi, Mark.
In response to your e-mail I wont respond point for point. I get a
bit lost that way. Let me restate my interest: the differences
between ordinary discourse and scientific theory. I don't yet,
however, have much understanding so I can't produce the good
arguments I would like to. But
Hi Mark,
Your point about Revelation being more than the sacred texts and
itself inspiring scientific work is correct, as your quotation from
Gleanings p. 161, shows. More accurately p. 161 shows how spiritual
souls who pass on do. but I think the general principle extends. I
knew this, of cou
Hi Mark,
I wrote:
>>I must admit I don't have a developed enough understanding of the
language spoken by the Birds of Heaven and Doves of Eternity to say
whether it is inappropriate to derive a scientific hypothesis or two
from them.<<
to which you responded:
However, what Baha'u'llah's stat
