There are plans for an Abrahamic Family House, a centre comprising a synagogue, a church and a mosque, that are being unveiled in New York, and being discussed in Abu Dhabi.   The idea that the Abrahamic Faiths should co-exist peacefully as do the Hindu and Buddhist faiths where the respective temples can be placed side by side has recently received a fillip from a new religion today that seems to take more account of most of the above issues than most others.  It is the Baha’i faith.

If there is to be a religion, why not one that attempts to reconcile the different ideas of all religions, one that does not upset deeply-held beliefs?   Jews, Christians, Muslims can also be Bahai’s.

Bahai’s say prayers like those of the other religions if shorn of what some might see as their controversial historical baggage.  Ir would seem that almost all of the main tenets of all religions are shared with the Baha’i’ faith.  The Baha’i Faith enjoins justice as being supreme.  It forbids criticism of anyone else on the grounds of their religion.  It advocates a world government to deal with problems arising in the human family, which should be united.  Its founder has a biography from recent times that withstands scrutiny and his visions were witnessed.  Baha’u’llah is said to be in the line of descent from all major prophets. He is a candidate for being a man adapted to the requirement of our modern era, with a set of moral precepts for the good of all.  It is the world’s fastest growing religion, persecuted as it might be in Iran.  Prescriptions for society of today are addresed by this modern religion.   If the power of religious faith can be harnessed to a belief in, and loyalty to, a system by which society is run, the cause of International Order might be served by the Bah’ai Faith and its stress on the usefulness of both science and reflection augur well.