NationStates Jolt Archive


What Should Relilgion Look Like?

GoodThoughts
21-08-2005, 20:56
What would the best religion look like? Share your description with us. Would it be like the following?

Religion is the outer expression of the divine reality.
Therefore it must be living, vitalized, moving and progressive.
If it be without motion and non-progressive it is without the
divine life; it is dead. The divine institutes are continuously
active and evolutionary; therefore the revelation of them must
be progressive and continuous. All things are subject to
re-formation. This is a century of life and renewal. Sciences
and arts, industry and invention have been reformed. Law
and ethics have been reconstituted, reorganized. The world
of thought has been regenerated. Sciences of former ages and
philosophies of the past are useless today. Present exigencies
demand new methods of solution; world problems are without
precedent. Old ideas and modes of thought are fast becoming
obsolete. Ancient laws and archaic ethical systems will not
meet the requirements of modern conditions, for this is clearly
the century of a new life, (words spoken in 20th Century) the century of the revelation of the
reality and therefore the greatest of all centuries.

Abdu'l-Baha
Baha'i Faith
Laerod
21-08-2005, 21:11
This comes close (http://www.bahai.org/). I lack the faith to commit to it though.