Abuse: e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/15ks9mv/did_you_experience_harm_by_practising_the_bahai/
Dishonesty: e.g. efforts to conceal failed prophecies and unflattering information, to deceive others about what the Baha'i faith teaches (e.g. youth classes where parents aren't informed that these are grassroots initiatives to establish a global theocracy), misrepresenting the teachings to make them more palatable, etc.
Censorship: the internet has thwarted their efforts to control information and it's damning how egregious their efforts have been and still are, e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/15tlo7q/more_subtle_bahai_censorship/
Hypocrisy: e.g. the teachings promote love and unity but the founders all hated their siblings and didn't practice what they preach. Which other religion had its founder and ~20 of the closest followers convicted and jailed for murder? Which other religion includes in its "Most Holy Book" (the Kitab-i-Aqdas) a gloat about a triple homicide? e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/15vsxxk/the_truth_about_akka/
Cover ups and violence: e.g. the bloody jihad instigated by the Bab and the obvious signs of schizoaffective disorder in his writings and drawings, the large number of homicides across Iran/Iraq/Turkiye/Israel as Baha'u'llah sought to consolidate his leadership (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/11jgnv4/bahaullah_a_serial_murderer/ )
Revisionism: huge efforts to revise literature especially 1920s/30s/40s/50s editions of Baha'i books (e.g. https://bahai-library.com/salisbury_critical_examination_literature ), but also ongoing revisions (e.g. of Ruhi books https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/11kh54j/ruhi_book_one_now_even_more_tolerant/ )
Misrepresentation: e.g. the Baha'i faith is presented as promoting equality of men and women but the writings are often misogynistic (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/16wkl1z/calm_down_ladies_bahaullah_taught_that/ ) and the leaders are all men (e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/1fg7ogz/is_the_equality_of_men_and_women_really_a_bahai/ ). It's also misrepresented as promoting the unity of science and religion despite advancing a wide array of statements incompatible with science including the existence of life on all planets, the transmutation of copper to gold after 70 years, and fundamental confusion around the theory of evolution.
Shall I continue? It's not so much bitterness as it is shame and regret over being conned and having wasted so much time on something so undeserving. e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/1ey2y4k/regret_over_time_wasted_on_bahai_stuff/
Source : https://www.reddit.com/r/exbahai/comments/1ivicap/perhaps_we_can_share_our_thoughts_first_hand/me5uzn9/
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