It's not fun to be a Baha'i?
For some Baha'is, but not for all Baha'is.
What's fun about it? Fun for me would be going on a vacation, not going to a Baha'i meeting and studying the Writings.
The Baha'i Faith all kinds of rules, both on what you should and shouldn't do.
Baha'is cannot smoke, drink, gamble, have premarital intercourse, gays can't marry, you can't beg as a profession or backbite, or defame people through lies and deceit behind people's backs. All of this I'm perfectly fine with. What I do have a problem with, is that although Baha'is can vote in their respective democratic nations, and should vote in Baha'i elections for leadership within the religion, Baha'is are forbidden to partake in partisan politics and cannot join a political party. Apparently the Universal House of Justice made a huge stink about this, and Baha'is are "above" that type of behavior. Although honestly, all the Baha'is I met leaned left in politics, and weren't shy to talk about it, despite the order from the UHJ.
What Baha'is are supposed to do, more specifically, is to recite one of three obligatory prayers every day. There's a short prayer that takes less than a few minutes to recite. The medium and long prayers are considerably more complex than the short prayer, that most Baha'is perform. Apparently you are also supposed to recite these facing the Baha'i Holy Site of Haifa, Israel. As well, there is a 19-Day Fast between March 1 and March 19, which are the last days of the Baha'i calendar year. Most Baha'is are instructed not to eat and to think about God and read scripture during this time. During the first of every Baha'i calendar month there is also a feast exclusively for Baha'is where they join in fellowship with each other. As a Baha'i is it expected that you read the scripture they have on their website, or even better, download their program
Ocean Interfaith Reader and study not just the Baha'i texts but various other scriptures from the world's leading religions.
What Trailblazer said led me to think about another rite of passage for Baha'is. Although it is not truly consider a "vacation", many Baha'is go to their national temple in several different countries, or even better yet, travel to Haifa, Israel to see the burial site of Baha'u'llah and experience the gardens and the nine-sided temple that is there. Baha'is have an obsession with nine. All of their national temples are structured with nine sides. As well, some famous people are Baha'is, including Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight Shrute in The Office. He is an author, creator of SoulPancake and knows a lot of about the religion. Another thing Baha'is stress is the importance of secular work and Baha'u'llah himself compares it to praying. There's a lot of good things about the religion, including but not limited to, the equality of the sexes, despite the UHJ members having to be all men, the importance of both religion and science as they work together such as "two wings of a bird" and the unity of humankind, including the unity of religion, God and the recognition of sovereignty for each nation that currently exists.
In short, there's a lot more to like about the religion than there is to dislike, and it compelled me to learn all about this faith in further detail. I actually know even more about this, particularly the scriptures, that I won't go too in-depth in this post, but, in short, becoming and being a Baha'i isn't a religion which you just tell people you are something and therefore become it, yet, it's not as restrictive as many NRMs and cult-like religions have became in recent years. I remember talking to the woman on the phone about the religion, she stressed to me that if I have any Christian friends that I just "play along" with them, which goes completely against their own rules, and that "everybody sins in this religion and it's pretty much okay to do so." This is probably the reason why I don't see Baha'is being homophobic, despite not allowing gays to marry or have sex with each other. The only unforgiveable sin in the Baha'i Faith is covenant-breaking, which essentially is, starting a new religion and calling it a Baha'i religion. The Baha'is like to think there is only one Baha'i Faith, although this isn't entirely true, they have snubbed the other Baha'i divisions and virtually all Baha'is belong to the same sect of the religion.
I realize that unity has not fully been established and the next prophet of the Baha'i Faith hasn't been born yet, but my theological understanding and beliefs are so ahead of everything I've ever heard, besides some advanced philosophers, theologians and autodidactic people like myself I almost consider myself "post-Baha'i", meaning, I believe what the Baha'i Faith teaches about world unity, but I'm also looking to the reality that is also post-unity, a reality which humans establish their sovereignty and unity everywhere in this Universe and reality in general. Through many talks with Trailblazer I have come to realize that our differences are really only in where authority is appreciated, and general basic theological principles, like the differences between monotheism and panentheism. But I deeply respect her as a person who has decided to make debating skeptics online a passion of hers, and although I'm hundreds of years further than most people on these matters, I feel like she has a mutual understanding of how I perceive God. It's easy to say, "God is reality", but it's much harder to deconstruct that. As well, it's also easy calling yourself a Baha'i, but actively being and engaging yourself with the Baha'i Faith is a difficult thing to do, given the fact that the religion calls so few and their numbers are so thin and far inbetween.
This post alone could be used to explain pretty much the religion as a whole except for the actual scriptures, which would take several more paragraphs to explain.