For some reason I'm not getting your quotes. Are you using the quote button?
Those laws are dogma/doctrine. They are teachings that structure an organization or religion (Bahai) to which the followers (Bahais) use in practice, speech, and belief. That is dogma. That's doctrine.
You cannot have diversity if you want "all religions [that] will become one religion" who will "come to understand there is a god."
Either you want diversity or you don't.
Now it depends?
All traditions are valuable. This is exactly what gets people killed is because X religion finds value in their teachings and try to preserve it but Y faith wants to kill those people for a new, governed religion.
I'll say it another way, how you are presenting your religion, your faith is not doing anything different than what other religions do and did. The size of your religion doesn't exclude you from making all religions into one under god. People do not agree with you.
Do you want their agreement?
If so, how would you come to an agreement without god?
Not all traditions are valuable. That's the point. Teachings, laws and traditions for one age may be a remedy but for another may be a poison. Traditions like slavery, holy war, racism and the suppression of women are teachings of bygone ages that are no longer acceptable to the wider world.
Do you understand that the world is abolishing racism. It was once a cape table for races to be segregated in America. That tradition has been destroyed. You want it kept? Was it good that blacks were oppressed?
The Bible says women should not speak or have a say in matters. Today, that's been thrown out the door although it is a part of God's Word. It is no longer relevant. Do we allow Muslims to keep the tradition of holy war once needed to prevent the genicide of Muslims, do we keep this tradition in an age of nuclear weapons?
Regardless of what Baha'u'llah says, humanity are throwing out and rejecting some traditions even the people who once were strong upholders of these traditions.
Traditions of death by stoning and crucifixion have been mostly abandoned and where not are opposed by all humanity and are on the way out. You say keep them? For what? What use is stoning, slavery, crucifixion, holy war, the oppression of women, apartheid, racism, bigotry in our age? Both the world, the UN and Baha'u'llah all are against these things. These are all part and parcel of things you call 'traditions'.
You trying to tell me these traditions are 'valuable'?. Many religions have stoooee practising their own traditions why? Because times have changed and now they see them as cruel and unneeded in this age.
What about traditions like FGM? It IS a tradition like you say. A valuable one?? I beg to differ and ask for common sense to prevail when we say rtraditions across the board should all be upheld. It doesn't stand up to reason.
The
history of
FGM is not well known but the practice dated back at least 2000 years. It is not known when or where the
tradition of
Female Genital Mutilation originated from. It was believed that it was practised in ancient Egypt as a sign of distinction amongst the aristocracy.
How many more traditions are harmful? Child slavery. Child prostituion. Child marriage. The beating of wives and children. You accept all these? They have been traditions for centuries.
The world and Baha'u'llah have rejected them. If you see them as ' valuable' then that's your right to believe what you want.
What's wrong with abolishment of slavery, racism, bigotry, discrimination, oppression of women, and many, many more evil traditions??
I'm not saying there aren't good innocent traditions that we should love and respect. I'm saying a lot need to be thrown out and are by the UN and other bodies and governments as no longer acceptable in our age.
Tradition is like medicine. If it is good for the illness ok. But if it makes the patient worse or kills him then it is a poison and some traditions of the past which might have been acceptable like stoning or severe punishments for crimes where there was only desert and no jails or prisons may have been justified then but not today when we have 'corrective facilities' to re educate criminals.
Try to understand that traditions are not all good or all bad but that we can't give a blank cheque to all of them.
