Shoghi Effendi's World Baha'i Commonwealth? What would it look like?
"What would it look like?"
More like the writings of Baha'u'llah or Susan Maneck?
More like the writings of Baha'u'llah or "Viv"?
More like the writings of Baha'u'llah or other such false identities?
More like the writings of Baha'u'llah or the slandersous vilifications of Shoghi Effendi?
A thoughtful and insightful scholar, worthy of the name, and with a sense of
honesty and integrity, seriously weighs and cites the language used by
Shoghi Effendi to describe people with whom Shoghi Effendi disagreed:
"Diabolical, ambitious, malevolent, deluded, shameless apostate, brazen,
infamous, insidious, vile whisperer, Antichrist, the living embodiment of
wickedness, cupidity and deceit, blasphemous, unspeakably repugnant,
perfidious, unquenchable animosity, arrogant, treacherous, despicable, blind,
uncontrollable animosity, the most shameless, vicious, relentless apostate,
the incarnation of Satan, fiendish ingenuity and guile, infernal, nefarious,
defectors, betrayers.' "
To which I'd add the shameless "low-born Christian woman" and many other
reprehensible terms and references.
So, what would Shoghi Effendi's Baha'i Commonwealth look like? More
like Baha'u'llah's conception of a moderate separation of church and state,
a global, pluralistic community rich in the diversity of humanity, the variety of
human ideas and beliefs, or more like Islam at its worst, unaccepting, intolerant,
fanatically insane in its hatreds, animosities, and contempt for other people? In
short, the "Slanderous vilification" Shoghi Effendi displayed throughout his books
and messages, and imitated so shamelessly by the online fanaticism of the
"Baha'i Internet Agency"?
?
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