Re: Believer Beware- Turf War

Steve Marshall wrote:
> Jerry wrote:
> > Since you are agreeing that *some* attacks meet this criteria, then what 
> > attributes of the attack make it so?   I can't answer this for you, I 
> > don't know what attributes you've considered, and I'm not a mind reader.
>
> I think it might be more productive to examine the differing
> perceptions of the thing attacked. My guess is that Jerry sees the
> Baha'i Faith as a monolithic entity - in which case an attack on one
> part of it can easily be perceived as an attack on the whole.

Steve, a community is monolithic by definition since it describes all of 
the people within a group.   For example, the scientific community 
comprises a monolithic group of people, but they still have wildly 
different ideas, methods and beliefs.

> I don't think of the Baha'i Faith in that way. I see it as an organic
> entity. If one part of it applies the revelation in a way appropriate
> to its environment, it experiences growth and development. If not, it
> doesn't. A failure in one area isn't a reflection on the whole and an
> attack on one part isn't an attack on the whole either.

The whole of the organic entity is the community.

> But I'm sure Jerry and I can agree to disagree on this.

Yeah, thats always a good alternative, agree to disagree.
Jerry