What is Guadeloupe-conference? Please explain. thanks.

There were and are lots of Mahdis out there. here is the short list of them. People claiming to be the Mahdi

Just for conversations sake.

This is a key starting point:

When Ayatollah Khomeini was brought 1978 in Neuphle-le-Cateau, it was clear that the man had been designed by Guadeloupe-conference of key powers to replace the, hopeless, Shah.

Khomeini was really a political activist, not an intellectual, or a charismatic cleric; he could not even speak properly Farsi.

His success was due to a very especial mechanism of circumstances of socio-culture of Shiites believing in a saviour (whom face even could be seen in the moon!) and especially to the lack of democratic and secular opposition forces.

Because all opposition forces, except the religious ones, had been rooted out by the Shah.

And to think that the French welfare state not only gave him political asylum, but subsidized his living expenses.

Without being Marxist, I believe in this historical conclusion of Marx “religion is the opiate of masses”– See what happened to your Bahis and to other people in the course of history because of religious atrocities–

The question if our existence is due to a universal intelligence or even an anthropocentric reason remains a puzzle of natural sciences and philosophy, but I definitively regect any explanation of religion for it.

This subject can at least be of a whole aricle.

Thank you that you spent you time reading the piece. In view of accuracy, I do not distinguish any difference among religions, faiths, or sects; these are all different products of some men “prophets” who could only have their success in their naïve environment.

Today, the alleged prophets will find their followerse in a psycho-pathological institution, if do not commit any sectarian crimes.

Without being, in a common sense, atheist, I started explaining the universe with other logic than that of any religion. Among the religions, with their different morality, and proposals, traditions… I consider Islam as a violent potential of politics, therefore must be very confined in privacy.

The catastrophic record of the IRI is a clear proof that this religion cannot rule.

Believing in the divinity of religion is certainly an age old question. Is it simply the “opiate of the masses”, as described by Marx, or, could we all be part of some plan that does involve what we consider to be abhorrent and cruel acts inflicted by, gotta love this quote from the movie Constantine, “God, a mean kid with a magnifying glass” in an effort, in a process of development and realization of a reality that is in this world unattainable through knowledge.

There is another quote I often ponder from another movie, Finding Forester.

“…its like praying-what do you risk?”

Dear Omid

I expressed once all my solidarity with Bahais because of barbaric repression of the IRI against them. This is the same solidarity that people once had with Jews who were the victims of another totalitarian regime.

So, apart of this humanistic solidarity, I do not believe that any religion has roots in divinity.
At best, a religion, faith, or sect can relatively better explain some general questions, but it still remains a product of human; it reflexts others phenomena, anything but not a divine mission

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Religious and theological views aside. I find it very ironic that not only do IRI clerics and administrators plan and look forward to the return of the Imam, but so do other government’s. The return of Christ, is a big part of right wing and conservative ideology. Could the argument be made that foreign policy decisions have been made on both sides based on apocalyptic hopes? No pun intended, but God help us.