Exaltist Ethan
Bridging the Gap Between Believers and Skeptics
You really think that? I spent year after year crafting Exaltism and I ended up with no followers (including myself), and ended up with just what became a bunch of outdated theology and websites I had no use for anymore. In fact, I don't even say that I was creating a NRM or religion, I was creating a cult, because of how new and small of a concept I thought it originally was. Not only did Baha'u'llah create a religion, he created one with over five million followers, making it a small but effective world religion. Being a Baha'i isn't exactly like other religions either. Obligatory prayers, 19-day fast, dozens of scriptural books accounting for the divine, and the ecumenical nature of the religion makes it not only work with other religions, but Baha'is, Trailblazer included, quote scripture from the Christian Bible.Well he established a religion. That's nothing too major.
Calling yourself a Baha'i is easy, being a Baha'i is hard, and being Baha'u'llah was only a task that he could do, especially after the protestant and scientific awakenings in Europe and North America back then, when it seemed to most people, that you can only either be a Christian or an atheist, something he effectively proved them wrong about. In all reality, the only person who can pull off a feat like that is someone who had the intelligence and charisma of a prophet, a messenger, to lead civilization to its next phase: world unity. Please, do not underestimate how important Baha'u'llah really was. I honestly don't believe but to reach over five million followers in just about every country in the world is no minor accomplishment.
They were certainly people who changed and shaped the world to make it more suitable for their ideas. But Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great have no contemporary religion, virtually nobody prays, worships or otherwise venerates either because of their faults. Feel free to worship whomever you desire, but the way I understand God is that divinity should have no focal point like so many people make it out to be. Billions of Christians make Jesus the focal point, Trailblazer makes Baha'u'llah her focal point, but when you widen the lens and start to realize that even ordinary people are unique, interesting and even extraordinary when it comes to the complexity and diversity in their lives, you start to understand that the divine needs no focal point and we need to treat others the way Christians treat Jesus, the way Baha'is treat Baha'u'llah, and so on.By this standard here, I'd say that Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great had way more significant accomplishments that effect us more to this day that the Bahai faith ever will. So are they gods? They certainly claimed to be. I intend on worshipping them one day.
The focal point of our divine nature rests in our ability to develop and create human extropy, something unparalleled so far from any other species on Earth, or even the planets we have discovered so far. Humans and the way they are, especially in the modern sense, needs that itself to be recognized and cherished more than anything else for what it is. I hope you understand this.