Letter: Religious concept contradicts itself

Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1998 | 10:50 a.m.

I don't imagine it was meant to be funny, but that was how I took it.

For Baha'i to accept the existence of other religious prophets but reject their teachings (reincarnation), shows Baha'i to simply contradict itself. If one accepts other prophets, but rejects their teachings, then one has rejected those prophets.

Mark Twain said, "He (man) is the only animal that has the true religion -- several of them."

Baha'i is attempting to create another "true religion." While its goals may, in some instances, be noble -- man does not need religion to reject racism or to act morally.

M. Timothy Hollingshead

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