I see your points and I’ll try and explain. Baha’is look at the root cause of the problems and not just the symptoms because otherwise no cures will ever happen. We believe the root cause is disunity and unity and oneness can solve our problems. So if the world accepted legally that we are all citizens of planet earth with equal rights then where is war? And with an end to wars the world has $trillions and $trillions to clean the oceans, provide a universal basic wage, universal free education, universal free Medicare and world employment. But to achieve this there must be a change in mindsets everywhere. To replace the ‘us and them’ mentality with a wider loyalty to all humanity.
But evolving our mindsets to this level involves the elimination of all forms of prejudices - national, religious and racial and other profiling. only education or reeducation can have any chance of bringing about this change not treaties. A system needs to be erected on human rights and justice for all not greed and profit. It is a slow process.
So what have the Baha’is accomplished? The Baha’i World Community is the first and only world community that has ever existed in the history of the human race under a world governance. It is composed of members of all races, nationalities, faiths and cultures. It is proof that world unity can be achieved as it is comprised of a cross section of the entire human race. Humanity has never witnessed it’s like nor has it been able to achieve it’s like with disunity and conflicts arising everywhere.
So if the Baha’is can establish a unified world community under world governance why can’t the world stop fighting and get together and have peace? The one factor which the world lacks is the teachings of Baha’u’llah without which they are being swallowed and engulfed in more and more conflict and wars unable to extricate themselves from these problems and then criticising us who can do what they cannot - unite together in peace as one family.
“Every system, short of the unification of the human race, has been tried, repeatedly tried, and been found wanting. Wars again and again have been fought, and conferences without number have met and deliberated. Treaties, pacts and covenants have been painstakingly negotiated, concluded and revised. Systems of government have been patiently tested, have been continually recast and superseded. Economic plans of reconstruction have been carefully devised, and meticulously executed. And yet crisis has succeeded crisis, and the rapidity with which a perilously unstable world is declining has been correspondingly accelerated.”
Shoghi Effendi
