My point is, every time a Baha’i points out some human failing, from the treasurer of the US NSA to a Presidential Hopeful, the majority of Baha’is are trained to attack the whistle blower with every sleazy gimmick they can find. We truth tellers are “angry!” or “profoundly mentally disturbed!” or, worst of all, “envious” of Baha’is who happen to hold Baha’i administrative titles. There are probably more Baha’is excommunicated because they found and told the truth about historical facts, or refused to remain silent in the face of illegal or immoral behavior in the community, than ever actually transgressed a commandment.

The shame of it is, the founder, Baha’u'llah, might well be the Return of Them All, but who is going to swallow it when they’re forced to spout the party lines just as readily as any North Korean or Burmese who wants to live another day. This is not what Baha’u'llah wrote. Not at all. The Temple was designed to elevate and entertain the mind, not be a vehicle for superstition and fear. It’s become a tool in the hands of a top-heavy religious adminstration that makes its own rules and dares anyone calling themselves Baha’i to give up their mind and conscience to that adminstration.

Somewhere along the way the Baha’i administrators got the idea that they are the heirs of infallibility and the future rulers of the planet. Yes, the temples are lovely, but they are mortar and clay. They possess no magic; they are merely beautiful. Men are the makers of magic, God the author of beauty. I choose beauty, I choose God.

The Delhi High Court today stayed the arrest of the trustees and management committee members of Delhi’s Lotus temple, till September 25 on a complaint registered with theDelhiPolice.

Justice A K Sikri directed the Economic Offence Wing(EOW) of the Delhi Police not to arrest the trustees and management committee members of the Lotus temple, founded by the Bahai faith, till the next date of hearing.

Trial Judge Kamini Lau, on the complaint of some of the former employees of the temple, had directed the Delhi Police to lodge a complaint against the trustees and management committee members who were allegedly involved in smuggling of classified defence documents, hawala transactions and religious conversions.

The trustees and members, some of them from Iran, also procured about 80 Indian passports by submitting false address proof, Counsel S S Tripathy and Sandeep Jain said.

Incidentally, Zina Sorabjee, the wife of former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee, is one of the trustees of the Lotus Temple, a tourist attraction in the capital.

Senior Counsel K K Sud appearing for the Bahai temple sought direction of the Court for quashing the FIR.

After lodging an FIR, the Delhi Police arrested Iranian Payam Shoghi from Indira Gandhi International Airport while fleeing from the country to Columbia on August 16.

The police had lodged the complaint against nine beneficiaries which included trustees and members of the managing committee.

http://www.javierduhart.cl/templos/

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Javier.

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