Re: 50,000 locals refused to accept Baha'ullah's claim

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> in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jerry Joplin at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17/11/03 3:48 pm:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> All this comparing, and tear dripping poor me's thats all bahai's
> can
> >> do Jerry.  The Heroic age of the Babi/Bahai's (Two cults put
> together
> >> only lasted from 1844 to 1921 (77 years) For the Christians
> >> persecution went on for 300 years. I bet there was one heck of a
> lot
> >> more Christians murdered by the Romans in 300 years than the babi's
> >> murdered by Shi'it Muslims during the purge against them in Iran.
> >
> > "All this comparing" is the only rational and historical way to address
> > your statements.  The Baha'i Faith in its first 150 years, spread faster
> > than Christianity in its first 150 years.   That is an undeniable fact,
> > something which you've failed to address.
>
> Sorry Jerry, with respect I disagree,  For instance over the past
> century the modes of transport, communication, education  and freedom
> of expression allowed in numerous non muslim countries world wide
> which numerous new age religions took advantage of,  to propagate
> their religious views (JW's Mormons, Bahais etc) was unheard  of in
> early centuries of Christianity. Taking into consideration the three
> centuries of persecution christians suffered under the Roman Empire it
> would take a team of professional religious historians to enter into a
> joint project of study and come up with a result to find an
> answer..................Errol

A grand point!  I'd say the past century and a half, even provide a stark
contrast to what went on before.  In the mid nineteenth century GB waged war
on China for the right to export opium to the Chinese.  Moderns positively
cringe at the barbarity of it.  The Americans were herding our indigenous
people off to concentration camps.  The Brits forbid the Irish to grow much of
anything but potatos, with an eye toward turning the island into a beef
pasture, its millions of occupants to starve.  The flower of the American
anti-slavery movement was a ban on imports of slaves from abroad - domestic
prices would climb and manumission would become expensive, and in many places
illegal.  The barbarity of these times is quite consistent with the past:
Hulegu's massacre in Baghdad, Vlad's impaling through the Balkans, all passe
for the day; and in contrast with contemporary rejection of war crimes,
genocide, etc.

Was this another Axial Period, just 150 years ago?