Third Reflection

democracy and freedom requires rejection of God. Later Feuerbach said that the reason for human misery is that humans have alienated their perfections from themselves and have projected it in the clouds calling it God. Thus the only way that humans can become noble is to reject God. Nietzsche said that as long as God exists humans cannot be free. Thus he declared the death of God. The final stage was asocial interpretations of Darwinism in which humans became purely an animal who should be living on the basis of the law of jungle namely struggle for existence. It was due to the failures of pre-modern and modern views that postmodern culture emerged in contemporary world. This time it rejected the idea of human nobility as meaningless. It argued that there is no such a thing as human being, nor there is any objective value. Therefore there is no sense to talk of human rights or human dignity. What was left was cultural relativism. The result was that our contemporary world believes in everything and nothing. Conclusion Baha’u’llah’s writings combine the positive aspects of the pre-modern, modern, and postmodern viewpoints while rejecting their negative aspects. Like the pre-modern worldview, Baha’i Faith affirms the dignity of human beings as a spiritual being. But unlike the pre-modern traditionalism, Baha’u’llah affirms, like modern discourse, the need to reconstruct the world so that the world becomes a mirror of the spiritual truth of all human beings. Unlike the pre-modern and modern worldviews, and like postmodern discourse, Baha’u’llah extols diversity of human reality, and argues for his unique concept of unity in diversity. That is why Baha’u’llah defines political democracy, social justice, independent investigation of truth, a culture of communication and friendship with all humans being, elimination of international anarchy, unity of all religions, and rejection of all prejudices as the logical implications of a spiritual consciousness, and the essential requirements for realization of peace, justice and unity in the world.