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As to the slogans.. bestowed on the Baha'i Faith: religion "made to measure", religion "without any logical difficulties, without mysteries or paradoxes, religion deliberately modern, sensible and rational." This judgment shows once more how he (the critic quoted) judges a religious system alien to his own according to the concept of religion obtained from neo-Protestant theology.. The phrases.. ("all too harmonious, all too conflict-free, all too lucid") are meaningless and unintelligible for anyone who does not share his premises. Quite a clever trick perhaps: to turn a good epithet into its opposite by a dialectical manoeuvre, using the words "all too" without good cause (and indeed without possible good cause). As if one can add "all too" to 'any' epithet? Something can be too easy, too dangerous, too frivolous, but not too true, too correct, nor "all too lucid" and "all too harmonious." To say "all too lucid" is a form of pseudo-argument which the uncritical reader accepts at its face value, but logically the phrase is nonsense and it also exposes its user: anyone who has resort to such "reasons" shows that he lacks real ones..
(61:2)
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