Bridge of Reason

  Several years ago, I was a member of a local SACRE group. SACRE was an acronym for the Standard Advisory Council on Religious Education. On this council were representatives of all the major religions taught on the national curriculum, with some invited onlookers. At that time, the religions taught in school were Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Buddhism. At each meeting there was a particular gentleman, one of the invited onlookers, who said the same thing at every opportunity: ‘Why are we not seen as one of the major religions and taught to young people?’. This man was a representative of the Baha’i Faith. Who are the Baha’i? THE BAB The Bahá’í Faith traces its origin to 1844 and the announcement by a young man, Siyyid ‘Alí-Muhammad, in Shiraz, Persia (now Iran), that He had been sent by God to prepare humanity for a new age and the imminent appearance of another Messenger even greater than Himself.  Siyyid ‘Alí-Muhammad took the title of the  B...