I joined in the mid-80's, attracted by the global perspective of the religion during the Cold War, which I was convinced would lead to the end of man-kind. I now realize that on top of what I know consider the Faith's empty and hollow rhetoric, what I was fed were lies on top of lies. A number of web pages have chronicled extensively the current domineering structure of the Faith's hierarchy, censorship in publishing, limitation of personal freedoms, and false chronicling of history.

And how do so many Bahais react to these truths...denial, denial, denial (and Bahais would deny that they are in denial, too!). Have a Bahai try to explain away the "Some Qur'an Verses Contradicted" link of http://www.geocities.com/athens/acropolis/5111. They lie to your face (and I think attempt to convince themselves, too). The attempt is disgusting in any case.

I have since been shunned by Bahais, including my closest friends, but how can I continue to pretend in a farce? Just because 20th and 21st Century Persian and Arabic were translated into 17th Century English (a sorry attempt to give the text an air of religiosity by mimicking the language of the King James Bible) does not mean that the source was divine.