(November 11, 2018 at 12:16 pm)Khemikal Wrote:(November 11, 2018 at 10:37 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: Bahai may or may not be nonsense. But I am reluctant to dismiss it out of hand.
Why?
It is an improvement upon nonsense. And an improvement upon nonsense makes sense. After all, that is all that science and philosophy are (when you really stand back and look at them.)
It's not, go spend twenty minutes at a bahai forum. Those guys are nuts, even more nuts than your run of the mill religious nuts. That's what happens when you get too deep into syncretism, though, you end up with a schizophrenic religion.
The bahai faith is islam's version of scientology.
I know a Bahai who is a pretty reasonable fellow. Biased at any point that facts impinge upon his religious beliefs, but otherwise quite enjoyable company. I can't speak to whether the Ba'hai faith itself is any more or less nonsensical, other than its seeming dependence upon prophets, holy texts, and such, but this fellow does not otherwise appear to be any worse for the wear.