There's a lot of cope in that discussion. Bahá'ís are clearly conflicted and not without reason.
Nearly every question of justice — how the poor are treated, whether the vulnerable are protected, whether truth is told by those in power — is ultimately settled in the political arena. A faith that commands its followers toward justice, the elimination of prejudice, and the betterment of the world, yet forbids them the primary language in which societies negotiate those very things, asks them to will the ends while renouncing the means. Silence is not neutral: when good people abstain from political speech, the field is simply ceded to those with fewer scruples, and quietism becomes, in effect, an endorsement of whatever order prevails.
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