SCIENCE WITHOUT RELIGION — IMAGINE!
Mindless persecution of the pioneers of religion and science: https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/je/BNE/bne-158.html https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/je/BNE/bne-159.html https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/je/BNE/bne-160.html https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/je/BNE/bne-161.html https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/je/BNE/bne-162.html
“Now, all questions of morality contained in the spiritual, immutable law of every religion are logically right. If religion were contrary to logical reason then it would cease to be a religion and be merely a tradition. Religion and science are the two wings upon which man’s intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Should a man try to fly with the wing of religion alone he would quickly fall into the quagmire of superstition, whilst on the other hand, with the wing of science alone he would also make no progress, but fall into the despairing slough of materialism. All religions of the present day have fallen into superstitious practices, out of harmony alike with the true principles of the teaching they represent and with the scientific discoveries of the time. Many religious leaders have grown to think that the importance of religion lies mainly in the adherence to a collection of certain dogmas and the practice of rites and ceremonies! Those whose souls they profess to cure are taught to believe likewise, and these cling tenaciously to the outward forms, confusing them with the inward truth.” https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/PT/pt-45.html Abdul Baha, PARIS TALKS: Chapter titled:
FOURTH PRINCIPLE: THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE RELATION BETWEEN RELIGION AND SCIENCE
Evolution, the Higgs boson and the law of the conservation of energy in harmony with spirituality and religion!
ESCAPE THE SLOUGH OF MATERIALISM, I.E. THE SWAMP OF DESPAIR Further reading: https://iscandertinto.com/?page_id=87 https://www.bahai.org/beliefs/god-his-creation/ever-advancing-civilization/science-religion https://bahaiteachings.org/bahai-principles-the-unity-of-science-and-religion/ https://bahaiteachings.org/how-society-can-move-from-the-material-to-the-spiritual/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith_and_science#:~:text=A%20fundamental%20principle%20of%20the,harmony%20of%20religion%20and%20science.&text=%CA%BBAbdu'l%2DBah%C3%A1%2C%20the,to%20the%20conclusions%20of%20science. ‘But by religion is meant that which is based on investigation and not that which is based on mere imitation.’ Selections from the Writings of Abdul Baha, p. 303. https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAB/sab-228.html https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/SAB/sab-229.html
* HIROHITO’S DEIFICATION LEADS TO TRUMAN’S WARTIME ATROCITY Not all atrocities and war crimes are sins: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/harry-truman-president-1945-1953 God judges!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szil%C3%A1rd_petition
https://www.history.com/news/father-of-the-atomic-bomb-was-blacklisted-for-opposing-h-bomb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb13ynu3Iac&ab_channel=PlenilunePictures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iamM2iduPNw&ab_channel=CinemaTyler https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3p7bjw
The decision to A-bomb Japan was predicated in part upon politics and money. A closing sentence of Shahzaib Hassan’s fine analysis is flawed in that by mid-1945 Japan’s expansionist pursuits were already a chimera. “Had America not dropped the bombs, they just wouldn’t have quit in their expansionist pursuit.” Once General Curtis LeMay had Tokyo firebombed five long months before the obliterating of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese Emperor and much of his government right away realised that a sustained defence of the home islands was problematic. https://www.quora.com/How-many-Japanese-died-in-the-firebombing-of-Tokyo Moreover, subduing Japan entirely was a task the air and naval forces of the USA could complete by blockade had President Truman desired.
Hassan is not condoning the first use of nuclear weapons, in this instance against a people who by August 1945 in the air and on the sea and under it, as confirmed by LeMay and acknowledged by his superiors, had become virtually defenceless notwithstanding the bluster of certain militarists, mainly in Tokyo. America’s leaders were not blind to the fact that a blockaded and conventionally bombed, and if opted for, a gassed people, whose cities had been systematically rendered useless, posed no enduring threat. A sequestered populace cowering in their resource poor islands would hardly muster the energy to stand up by the spring of 1946, let alone to fight off the United States Marine Corp and the USSR. America’s exorbitant A-bombs must be filmed and be seen in use by the electorate at home and by the Kremlin: ‘Kill the chicken. Scare the monkey’, as subsequently exemplified by the Chinese Communist Party to Australia’s export firms and in more than financial terms to the citizens of Hong Kong and Taiwan at voting time! The Party’s practices and parlance for dealing with Tibet, Xinjiang, and of late, Inner Mongolia, are similarly ruthless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_the_Chickens,_to_Scare_the_Monkeys https://www.languageonthemove.com/will-education-reform-wipe-out-mongolian-language-and-culture/#comments https://bahaiteachings.org/three-false-gods-materialism-racialism-communism/
On the business of war and the capricious court of public opinion: Throughout history countless crimes of commission and omission perpetrated by a host of worldly-wise leaders that result in hostilities between nations is a tale of primary culpability; it exceeds the appalling chronicle of crimes against one another that WW2’s combatants in the field saw no way of not committing! LeMay himself opined that had the allies not won the Pacific War the legacy awaiting him was that of a war criminal. By mid-1945 a famine-inducing stockpile of a zillion Agent-Orange-like bombs awaited rural Japan had President Truman not A-bombed its urban and industrialized population of civilians; his shortcomings however hardly compare with the list of horrors initiated by Prime Monster Tojo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZfObRnZiw0&ab_channel=Timeline-WorldHistoryDocumentaries Though God alone correctly apportions blame in this atrocious story from which our generation has absorbed little, I think the Almighty found unacceptable Hirohito’s deferring until 1946 the renouncing of his god-like status. Ineffable crimes of Japan’s militarists, as in Nanjing 1937, speak loud and clear as to homo homini lupus when man shuns the essence of religion. In World War 2 neither Japan nor the USA signed, let alone ratified, international protocols banning the use of mustard gas and the like. Under President Roosevelt’s watch huge quantities of chemical weapons stored by America’s military were available only for retaliating. President Truman ordered the stockpiles massively enlarged and the no-first-strike caveat withdrawn.
Hirohito & Tojo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgeGzRulpik&ab_channel=ThePeopleProfiles https://bahaiteachings.org/what-war-did-to-me-to-us/ National Geo, Aug 1995: Up From Ground Zero Hiroshima
Venal victors in academe sway public opinion by writing palatable histories of wars for propaganda purposes and for exonerating their paymasters. With time the truth emerges! Increasingly, academics accept that total victory over Japan was not dependent on the use of nuclear weapons. By mid-1945 the powers that be in America understood that to entirely subdue Nippon the horrors of Okinawa need not be replicated nor was the vaporising of two metropolises necessary. Because of the Soviet Union’s eagerness to deploy its war machine on Japan proper, to not detonate nuclear weapons over Japan in August 1945 seemed unfeasible to President Truman. Notwithstanding a fledgling UNO, US control over Nazi atomic and rocket programmes and despite reproofs from upright scientists as to entering the nuclear age by A-bombing en masse women and children of an enemy nation deluded by its masters, media and religions, he let the genie out. (Communists, Nagasaki’s Christians, Soka Gakkai and Oomoto nigh alone denied Hirohito’s “divinity”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oomoto From Babel to Baha’i: https://gum.co/gDehr p. 88, 108, 124. Of note is the sparing of Fudoin Buddhist temple located 2 miles from Hiroshima’s city centre.) After D-day in the Pacific (Saipan) and the start of intensive bombing of the home islands had moved the high command to shield the Emperor by downplaying for the allies’ benefit his war powers, and after Cold-war realpolitik had moved General MacArthur to overlook Hirohito’s culpability, his divinity – so-called – finally came to an end! Justice was only partially served!
NIPPON’S NATIONALISTS FLOUTED GOD’S TEACHING ON THE ONENESS OF GOD. NAZI RACISTS FLOUTED GOD’S TEACHING RE THE ONENESS OF HUMANITY. FLOUTING THE ONENESS OF RELIGION: APOCALYPSE & POST APOKALIPSO https://www.bandeeducation.com/apocalypse-post-apokalipso https://www.bandeeducation.com/apocalypse-and-post-apocalypse-part-two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJLE2pnN9WY&ab_channel=WorldWarII%7CColourFilms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74ydMIobSgQ&ab_channel=RonWells https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lFZ2rOxqQM&ab_channel=UniversityofCaliforniaTelevision%28UCTV%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Atomic
Although the Tanaka Plan is a hoax and Know Your Enemy is replete with racist phrases this wartime propaganda film nevertheless entails truths vis-à-vis Hirohito as a ‘Living God’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Your_Enemy: Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvLT8U0-_lI&list=UU9x7c4tGNWfpJyJTT6atzjw&index=94&ab_channel=TheBestFilmArchives Japanese public not fully aware of atrocities until c. 2000. Defenceless by July 1945: https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-Japanese-public-view-Japanese-veterans-immediately-after-World-War-Two
Religion forms civilization – not the other way around: http://bahaiteachings.org/stardust-religion-forms-civilization
‘Religion’ starts wars, e.g., the barons of a modern feudal state, the Zaibatsu, profited by perpetuating Hirohito’s deification. True religion is the only way to end war forever!
In the last two paragraphs of his essay The True Modernism Abdul Baha details “the cause of war-fare” and the only cure, i.e., religion renewed via Progressive Revelation: https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/FWU/fwu-1.html q.v. Baha’u’llah, Gleanings, CXXXII, The Purpose of the one true God. https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/b/GWB/gwb-132.html
What is Progressive Revelation and the Unity of Religion? https://bahaiteachings.org/how-to-reinterpret-prophecies-with-progressive-revelation/
SPARE US YOUR PLATITUDES PAUL. THERE IS NO GOD! WHY ALL WILL SOON DECLARE THEMSELVES BELIEVERS!
“The great Varqá who felt honoured to have met Bahá'u'lláh [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BCu%27ll%C3%A1h https://bahaiteachings.org/what-did-bahaullah-teach/] on several occasions wrote about once asking Him ‘how will the Cause of God be universally adopted by mankind?’ Bahá'u'lláh [1817-1892] said that first, the nations of the world would arm themselves with infernal engines of war, and when fully armed would attack each other like bloodthirsty beasts. As a result, there would be enormous bloodshed throughout the world. Then the wise from all nations would gather together to investigate the cause of such bloodshed. They would come to the conclusion that prejudices were the cause, a major form being religious prejudice. They would therefore try to eliminate religion so as to eliminate prejudice. Later they would realize that man cannot live without religion. Then they would study the teachings of all religions to see which of the religions conformed to the prevailing conditions of the time. It is then that the Cause of God would become universal.” Adib Taherzadeh, The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, Volume four, page 56.
http://bahaiblog.net/site/2015/01/religion-becomes-cause-terror/#comments http://bahaiteachings.org/overcoming-prejudice-intolerance-essential-safer-world
On abolishing religion and what religion really signifies: https://bahaiteachings.org/bahai-faith-reframes-religion
Varqá and his son, Rúhu’lláh, in prison with their jailer in Tehran shortly before martyrdom in 1896: An Apostle of Bahá'u'lláh and one of the outstanding Bahá'í poets of the age. www.bahai-biblio.org.
http://www.peyman.info/cl/Baha%27i/Others/ROB/V4/p050-072Ch04.html (The Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh, vol. iv.)
“After some time, in the course of His utterances Bahá'u'lláh recited that same verse [unspoken by Varqá but on his mind] from the Qur'án. [22:5] Varqá's wish was fulfilled, but he said to himself, 'Could this have been a mere coincidence?' As soon as this thought occurred to Varqá, Bahá'u'lláh turned and said to him abruptly, 'Was this not a sufficient proof for you?' Varqá was dumbfounded.” Adib Taherzadeh. http://bahaichronicles.org/mirza-ali-muhammad-and-ruhullah-varqa/ PROOF: https://www.bandeeducation.com/
There Is No God, the Wicked Saith Arthur Hugh Clough
1 "There is no God," the wicked saith, 5 Some others, also, to themselves,
"And truly it's a blessing, Who scarce so much as doubt it,
For what He might have done with us Think there is none, when they are well,
It's better only guessing." And do not think about it.
2 "There is no God," a youngster thinks, 6 But country folks who live beneath
"or really, if there may be, The shadow of the steeple;
He surely did not mean a man The parson and the parson's wife,
Always to be a baby." And mostly married people;
3 "There is no God, or if there is," 7 Youths green and happy in first love,
The tradesman thinks, '''twere funny So thankful for illusion;
If He should take it ill in me And men caught out in what the world
To make a little money." Calls guilt, in first confusion;
4 "Whether there be," the rich man says, 8 And almost everyone when age,
"It matters very little, Disease, or sorrows strike him,
For I and mine, thank somebody, Inclines to think there is a God,
Are not in want of victual." Or something very like Him.
Arthur Hugh Clough (1st Jan 1819 – 13 Nov 1861) also composed Through a Glass Darkly and occupied in Florence Nightingale’s life an esteemed position as her devoted co-worker.
Short term our future is bleak! In 1987 in his famous fourth volume Taherzadeh depicts it movingly:
Humanity is desperately seeking solutions to the horrific perils with which it is faced today. It experiments with every ideology or creed that it may come across in order to halt the destructive process which in ever-increasing acceleration is threatening to destroy the fabric of its present-day society. But so far it has not found a solution. Religious leaders, who are witnessing the bankruptcy of their time-honoured institutions and the inapplicability of old standards to the modern age, try to adapt new standards through making compromises, but these in their turn seriously undermine those religious teachings which had remained unchanged for centuries. The strict standards of truth which in older days were to be found in religious teachings are now in many parts of the world replaced by public opinion. The incompatibility of the two has forced religious leaders to walk a tight-rope, while people become increasingly disenchanted with religion. Many have swelled the ranks of agnostics and atheists in this century, while others are creating cults and religious sects mainly based on trivial or sensational ideologies.
While the religious leaders are constantly engaged in finding a way out, a great many people embrace these cults which become fashionable for a time. But when the novelty wears off or dissatisfaction sets in, or the movements become impotent and disintegrate, then they look for another saviour, another movement or another sect, and there are many to turn to throughout the world. And so the experiment to find peace and tranquillity in one's life continues. But so far few have found happiness or peace of mind.
On the other hand, the political leaders and the world's statesmen are struggling both individually and collectively to solve the problems facing mankind. Like religious leaders, they too are trying very hard to discover a formula. But since their actions are based on expediency and short-term interests, the world's horizons become darker every day. Neither religious leaders nor those in the political and social spheres have as yet found an answer to the ills of mankind.
And so the struggle goes on. Humanity will try everything until it reaches the stage of utter hopelessness and despair. Bahá'u'lláh forecasts the outcome in these words:
“The world is in travail, and its agitation waxeth day by day. Its face is turned towards waywardness and unbelief. Such shall be its plight, that to disclose it now would not be meet and seemly. Its perversity will long continue. And when the appointed hour is come, there shall suddenly appear that which shall cause the limbs of mankind to quake. Then, and only then, will the Divine Standard be unfurled, and the Nightingale of Paradise warble its melody.” Gleanings of Bahá'u'lláh, LXI.
We can see from the history of past religions too that each one has been ignored by the people in its own day. For instance, for some centuries the Message of Christ was ignored. But as it was the Message of God, it eventually penetrated into the hearts of people. Bahá'u'lláh in His Writings has made a very interesting statement concerning the future of His Cause. He unequivocally proclaimed that God has manifested Himself in this day and that there is no way out for the human race except to embrace His Cause. But it is apparent, from the world conditions now prevailing, that humanity will have to go through great suffering and tribulation and become chastised before reaching the final stage of turning its attention to the Cause of Bahá'u'lláh and entering into that tabernacle of unity of which He speaks in these words:
“How vast is the tabernacle of the Cause of God! It hath overshadowed all the peoples and kindreds of the earth, and will, ere long, gather together the whole of mankind beneath its shelter.” Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh, p. 84. . https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha%27i/Others/ROB/V4/Contents.html?up=%5E https://d9263461.github.io/cl/Baha%27i/Others/ROB/V4/p050-072Ch04.html?back=%3C
P. Desailly. (Adelaide, the city of churches: https://flamboyancetours.com.au/2019/04/18/adelaide-city-of-churches/) www.bandeeducation.com 2021.
