You're probably aware by now that most (all in this thread) non-Abrahamics consider that homophobia, but that those who feel like you do deny that there is any harm done to gays by this doctrine, because the Abrahamics don't feel hatred for gays and don't go out of their ways to harm them, so where's the bigotry, they ask?
That's their leverage - a literal resurrection. They need there to be original sin, free will, literal damnation, and a living savior that survived death on the cross and ascended to heaven. You take that away from Christianity, and what is left? Why be a Christian if none of that is true? For that matter, why be a Baha'i, even if one agrees with its world peace message? Humanism promotes the same without gods or faith-based beliefs, but also promotes reason over faith, and contains no homophobia. Why would a humanist make the switch over to Baha'ism when he already has its best parts with none of its worst parts?
We've never heard from any god, just human beings claiming to speak for one. And those humans have been shown to be wrong frequently. Science and empiricists in general aren't thinking about gods or trying to prove any religion's scriptures right or wrong. They're just looking at nature, trying to discover its regular patterns. It sees no gods, its answers have never required gods, and inserting gods into scientific theories gives them unnecessary complexity without adding any explanatory or predictive power, so why would that notion even come up in science?
Notice how well your comment works with any nonexistent entity, like Santa Claus or leprechauns. Science can never prove leprechauns wrong, otherwise they would not be leprechauns. That's true for your religion as well. It will never prove that leprechauns don't exist.
That's great, but you probably know that critical thinkers aren't interested in what others believe, just what they know and can demonstrate to be correct, since being correct is connected to empiricism (evidence), and empiricists are only interested in demonstrably correct beliefs. What you have are beliefs that you have accepted by faith, and so naturally, you have nothing to show others who are uninterested in faith-based beliefs.
Yes, and you've also made it clear what you consider truth to be - anything you believe. And you've made it clear how you come to those beliefs - you read it in a holy books, which is why such beliefs are not considered truth to the empiricist.
Does that mean that you see this thread as a net plus for advancing Baha'ism? How do you think the half-dozen or so non-Baha'i who have posted here feel about your faith and its teachings relative to before all this criticism and slander?
I like your euphemism for unacceptable - won't be promoted. Nobody promotes homosexuality, just tolerance of it, just as the pro-choice people aren't promoting abortion. And it's telling that you group it with vices. Are you also going to tell the thread that you make no negative moral judgments against gambling, nudity, or alcohol consumption, perhaps adding that you don't hate people who engage in such activities and that you treat them as equals? That would also be not credible, even if you believed it.
Really? Where? I don't see where you've broken ground yet. I also don't see a plan - just claims like that one.
