RE: Theocracy
July 22, 2014 at 7:55 am
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2014 at 7:56 am by Sen McGlinn.)
(July 21, 2014 at 8:01 am)Blackout Wrote: ... I'm sick of these religious crazies, form the moment I saw 'Baha'i Adminstrative World Order will become the new world government' I quit reading into further stupidity.
It is a stupid idea, but it is not what the Bahai teachings say. On the contrary, the separation of church and state is one of the cornerstones of the Bahai principles. The Bahai founding figures had a definite vision of how a world federal government would work, and they had a plan for how the Bahai community would administer itself, internally, as a religious community. They are very obviously two different things, but the less knowledgeable or less intelligent Bahais sometimes mash them. One is called the Bahai world Commonwealth (capital C), the other is the commonwealth of nations - and mixing up the Bahai texts that refer to one or the other causes a lot of confusion. I have linked to a blog article that summarises the nature of the two commonwealths in the Bahai literature. All the references there are links to sources that give more context.
Enjoy
~ Sen