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But this criticism shows something else: that.. (he) does not know the Baha'i Faith well enough and has not grasped its essential features. Human reason is certainly given a different value than it is in the Protestant Church (Martin Luther spoke of "that whore, Reason"). This, however, is not because the Baha'i Faith is " a deliberately modern religion" in the sense that in order to enhance its attractiveness, everything is geared to plausibility and effect; but quite simply because the divine truths do not run counter to human reason. Paradox is by no manner of means an indispensable element in original religion. Judaism and Islam-- to mention only these two religions-- get along without it, and, after all, even Protestant theologians will agree that the God who spoke in Judaism was the same God who revealed himself to man in Jesus.
(62:1)
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