The Faith claims that its teachings constitute "the sole panacea for the innumerable ills afflicting our present-day world" (Directives from the Guardian, p. 74). In other words, it is not just the answer to all of our problems, but the only answer to all of our problems. Such a belief is, in fact, extremely fanatical and reminiscent of current fanatical religious groups in the world.
(Peter Terry, The Sovereign Remedy: A Study of Bahá'í Sources)We are accustomed to religious fundamentalists saying, incessantly and even stridently, that the only solution to the problems that the individual person will encounter, or, for that matter, that the family, the neighborhood and municipality, the province, the nation, the world will face, can only be solved by God, and by a particular faith tradition – God's religion. Most Bahá’ís are accustomed to thinking of themselves as progressives, liberals, and not fundamentalists of any kind. How astonishing it may be then, for Bahá’ís and their friends to discover that this doctrine is found in the Teachings of Bahá'u'lláh.
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