On Jared Quoting Shoghi Effendi: An Average Guy Investigates the Baha'i Faith

Jared describes himself in his MySpace profile as "an average guy." -gw

So Nikki told me to download Ocean. It's a complete library of religious texts ranging from Baha'i to Christianity. I'm becoming more and more interested in the Baha'i faith. I thought it would be nice to show everyone what the Baha'i religion is through a great, albeit, lengthy quote from a great Baha'i, Shoghi Effendi. Here it is:

The Bahá'í Faith recognizes the unity of God and of His Prophets, upholds the principle of an unfettered search after truth, condemns all forms of superstition and prejudice, teaches that the fundamental purpose of religion is to promote concord and harmony, that it must go hand-in-hand with science, and that it constitutes the sole and ultimate basis of a peaceful, an ordered and progressive society. It inculcates the principle of equal opportunity, rights and privileges for both sexes, advocates compulsory education, abolishes extremes of poverty and wealth, exalts work performed in the spirit of service to the rank of worship, recommends the adoption of an auxiliary international language, and provides the necessary agencies for the establishment and safeguarding of a permanent and universal peace. -- SHOGHI EFFENDI

I really don't know why I'm looking into the Baha'i faith. I'm really wondering if it's rebellion against what I grew up knowing or an actual interest in the Faith. I'm still trying to figure that out. The only why I know for sure is by reading the Baha'i scriptures and figuring it out from there.

Jared, "Shoghi Effendi Defines the Baha'i Faith," MySpace

{Re-posted with permission}