What Do You Think Of The Bahai Faith??

I'm considering on going back to the Bahai faith. It just seems more peaceful to me and the people were awesome. I actually miss it and it was helping me. The only reason why I left because of my stupid ex-husband (who I am now divorced from).

I like the unity of it, the practice that everybody is 1 people, and there's no discrimination whatsoever. You go to each other's houses, not a church. I like that idea. It's just a simple religion that I can deeply understand and live with more than the Christian religions (which I think are too organized and such and have to many restrictions on what's okay to do and not okay to do).

Have any of you were/are Bahais? What do you think of it?

 

i've conversed with them on their main web-site . they're not so special other than they are mostly polite like lutherans and hindus . i had an interest in their guru's visionary suggestion that they adopt a universal one-world peace language . they don't seem quite to know what to do about this . of course , i think that i do . oops tho , if true that'd make me a guru , but then i'm pretty reluctant to be one , so we just politely conversed for awhile in stupid ordinary english . i hope we are friends .

 

Hey I am interested in this. Since there is no churches how to I find others and how can I learn more?

 

Ashliew - Bahais are everywhere. Look in your phone book, or google "Bahai" and the name of the area you live in. For information, the Wiki page is a good place to start,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahá'í_Faith
and right down the bottom you will find "external links" with addresses of online libraries and discussion groups.

 

yup, i sorta are one. i find strangeness easier to believe in then infallability, which is not specifically about baha'i. i've also too many times observed something invisible to adjust things convincingly intelligently to believe there can't be, or isn't, something big, friendly and invisible that wishes us well.

yes i declaired my belief in progressive revilation and baha'u'llah's part in it, many years ago. still can't get my mind around the likelyhood of infallability or need for it though.

otherwise, yes, if we have to have some form of organized belief, baha'i is the chapter of it for this millinium. or appears to be. just as others have been for other times past.

basically if baha'i were to replace christianity and islam, this world would be a better place. if it were to replace buddhism, taoism, shintoism or its equivelants, and the keeping of indigenous traditions and perceptions, without doing so, it would not.

baha'i has a lot to offer this world that it needs. what it seeks in other more dominant organized beliefs. that's what keeps me coming back to it, even as i can also see the sense in living in closer harmony with the rest of the web of life, without the barriers to doing so more familiar forms of organized belief seem to have participated in erecting.

when it comes to truth and peace and justice and understanding and all of that, Baha'u'llah had exactly the right idea about not letting us have priests.

on the other paw, i'd sure like to be able to hang around some kind of a monestary all day and night (as long as it wasn't christian or muslim) growing vegetables and keeping my mouth shut and not having to worry about anything.

 

You can find them in your phone book (that's how I found the group that I'm in now since January 2009). They'll help you find the nearest group you can be with every week.

It'll be in the section of churches/denominations in your phone book. Good luck!