4-24-08 - This statement strikes at the very foundation of the Bahai Cause (73-74).

This statement strikes at the very foundation of the Bahai Cause (73-74).


Ruth White. Abdul Baha's Questioned Will and Testament.
Beverly Hills: White, 1946.


"Abdul Baha said that if an angel from heaven comes down and tries to
change the teachings of
Baha'u'llah, do not believe him. Shoghi Effendi has changed them by
pronouncements and actions which
are in direct contradiction to Bahai teachings--above all he has changed
the very character and
fundamental principle of the Cause by putting a theocracy, which the
founders said it was not
[boldface in original], in place of the spiritual democracy which they
said, over and over again, it
is. The following instances show what acceptance of the alleged will has
done to the blind followers
of its rules."

"Mr. Horace Holley, as spokesman for Shoghi Effendi, made this statement
in 1925: 'The individual
conscience must be subordinated to the decisions of the elected Spiritual
Assembly.'" [boldface in
original]

"This statement strikes at the very foundation of the Bahai Cause, as one
of its cardinal teachings
is that man must have freedom of conscience. Among dozens of instances
that could be given of
Abdu'l-Baha's statements on this subject is the following: '... the
conscience of man is sacred and
to be respected . . . '" (73-74).
http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensor****p/Ruth%20White.htm


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The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience
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See 2007 - Lawsuit by Wilmette NSA Against Other Denominations
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Dr. C. (Charles) Ainsworth Mitchell
http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensor****p/CAMitchell_Re****t.htm