That's all that any of us seek to do.
Where posts are inconsistent with history, or each other, some of us offer information.
You will never get an honest history from people that have tried to exterminate a Faith from God, or any race or people. You will get a history distorted to support their error of judgement.
If you read of the early believers you will see their intent and it was not to wage war, they just wanted to offer the Love and promise of what was coming and that had just been revealed. It was while sharing that Love and hope, that the Mullah high on pride and want of power, started trying to eradicate what was becoming a fast growing influence. If it was not for those Mullah Persia in a few years would have accepted the Message of the Bab, a different world would have unfolded.
Sounds good today, but in a Bahai World those that reject will have no voice, and maybe the Bab's old writings might be embraced by your faith? For now they just sleep.
These are the Laws for today, they can not be altered. the Universal House of Justice can give levels within those Laws and enact and repeal what is not in the book.
The Kitáb-i-Aqdas | Bahá’í Reference Library
You talk as if in Certainty, yet you claim to belong to a Faith. Your double-think seems to be too embedded for you to perceive all this.
There is no double think, this is the promise that is recorded in all the Holy Books of the Past. This is the Day of God, there is absolutely no doubt about this fact.
Come to the Bahai Certainty!
Baha'u'llah has revealed
"The Book of Certitude" - The Kitáb-i-Íqán | Bahá’í Reference Library
Anything one would use from a Holy Book to disprove Baha'u'llah, will disprove any Messenger of the Past. Any proof one can use from a Holy Book to prove a Manifestation of the past, will Prove Baha'ullah,
Do you really believe that in a World with, say, 80% Bahais that Bahais would just stay out of it all and let the minority vote in governments, legislate and control all, and you would just obey these secular bodies?
Now you are talking, you can see the potential.
What we can not see is that world of the future. We are far too close to a disintegrating old world order that is falling apart, all the while a New World Order is rolling out in its stead.
Before that day comes about, humanity will face greater trial/trials to which will shake the limbs of mankind and show them that Unity is the only way.
Some of this has already happened, I see the first part of this quote as being the Challenge of the Covernant Breakers against Baha'u'llah;
“The days are approaching their end, and yet the peoples of the earth are seen sunk in grievous heedlessness, and lost in manifest error.” “Great, great is the Cause! The hour is approaching when the most great convulsion will have appeared. I swear by Him Who is the Truth! It shall cause separation to afflict everyone, even those who circle around Me.” “Say: O concourse of the heedless! I swear by God! The promised day is come, the day when tormenting trials will have surged above your heads, and beneath your feet, saying: ‘Taste ye what your hands have wrought!’” “The time for the destruction of the world and its people hath arrived. He Who is the Pre-Existent is come, that He may bestow everlasting life, and grant eternal preservation, and confer that which is conducive to true living.” “The day is approaching when its [civilization’s] flame will devour the cities, when the Tongue of Grandeur will proclaim: ‘The Kingdom is God’s, the Almighty, the All-Praised!’” “O ye that are bereft of understanding! A severe trial pursueth you, and will suddenly overtake you. Bestir yourselves, that haply it may pass and inflict no harm upon you.” “O ye peoples of the world! Know, verily, that an unforeseen calamity is following you, and that grievous retribution awaiteth you. Think not the deeds ye have committed have been blotted from My sight.” “O heedless ones! Though the wonders of My mercy have encompassed all created things, both visible and invisible, and though the revelations of My grace and bounty have permeated every atom of the universe, yet the rod with which I can chastise the wicked is grievous, and the fierceness of Mine anger against them terrible.” “Grieve thou not over those that have busied themselves with the things of this world, and have forgotten the remembrance of God, the Most Great. By Him Who is the Eternal Truth! The day is approaching when the wrathful anger of the Almighty will have taken hold of them. He, verily, is the Omnipotent, the All-Subduing, the Most Powerful. He shall cleanse the earth from the defilement of their corruption, and shall give it for an heritage unto such of His servants as are nigh unto Him.” “Soon will the cry, ‘Yea, yea, here am I, here am I’ be heard from every land. For there hath never been, nor can there ever be, any other refuge to fly to for anyone.” “And when the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then, and only then, will the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise warble its melody.”
Regards Tony
