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INTERESTING LINKS
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BAHAI FAITH
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QUOTES OF THE BOOK
"ONE COMMON FAITH
"Early in the twentieth
century, a materialist interpretation of reality had consolidated itself so completely
as to become the dominant world faith insofar as the direction of society was
concerned. In the process, the civilizing of human nature had been violently
wrenched out of the orbit it had followed for millenia.
For many in the West, the Divine authority that had functioned as the focal
centre of guidance-however diverse interpretations of its nature-seemed
simply to have dissolved and vanished...." Ibid, p.3
"....God is Dead" Ibid, p.5
Throughout that part of the world where the vast majority of the earth's population live, facile announcements"Ibid, pag.5
"that
'God is Dead' had passed largely unnoticed. The experience of the people of
Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific
had long confirmed them in the view not only that human nature is deeply
influenced by spiritual forces, but that its very identity is spiritual.
Consequently, religion continued, as had always been the case, to function as
the ultimate authority in life. These convictions, while not directly
confronted by the ideological revolution taking place in the West, were
effectively marginalized by it, insofar as interaction among peoples and
nations was concerned. Having penetrated and captured all significant centres
of power and information at the global level, dogmatic materialism ensured
that no competing voices would retain the ability to challenge projects of
world wide explotation. To the cultural damage
already inflicted by two centuries of colonial rule was added an agonizing
disjunction between the inner and outer experience of the masses affected, a
condition invading virtually all aspects of life. ....." Ibid, p.5
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