Does anyone advocate shariah law? or do you prefer a democratic government with all its flaws and no allegiance to theological institutions?
i don't think anything should be forced on anyone either way. i think baha'u'llah offered a pretty good happy medium there. except i don't aggree that anything ever has or had to be infallable, and no, i don't believe in blind alligiance to ANYthing, but the secular side of baha'u'llah's concept and abdu'l baha's expanding on it makes pretty good sense as a way to organize a secular government without religeous or idiological prejudices. we don't need political parties any more then we need oligarcal hedgemonies, and we damd sure don't need economic ones and the prejudices that come with that either. i don't believe any government has a right to be religeously biased, not even christian or buddhist but i don't believe we need the corruption of one run by corporacratic mafia either, which is the situation we seem to have in america and i DON'T believe these are the only alternatives, which i guess is a little redundant to say, having already mentioned at least one but the range of alternatives to those two isn't limited to one either, but is rather as wide and limitless as our immaginations which i believe to have been given to us by a diety or dieties that dam well intended that we use them =^^= .../\... right now america is a problem by condeming and demonizing and attacking everything that doesn't kiss the ass of little green pieces of paper, but like all things else, none of them, other perapse then, possible but unknown dieties, lasts forever. in time economic empires crumble, ultimately from their own internal corruption, as even religeous empires ultimately do. i really think there are much much much better ways then either of those two choices as narrowly and specificly stated. ways that certainly encorporate and welcome democratic choice, while not rejecting out of hand such honest spiritualities as are NOT, at least not inhierently nor exclusively, possessed by religeous organizations. =^^= .../\...
Shariah law is very close to the Pentecost in Bible! In general it is not bad – it was perfect for 7th century… If all the fundamentalists would stick to the Shariah law then there would be no problems. I believe that the problem is in the mentality of the people and in the fact that few people ever read it… Illiterate people are the hardest fundamentalists… Do you think they ever read it? How many of you read Pentecost or Shariah ?
