{"id":5047,"date":"2021-08-01T11:08:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T07:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2022-04-11T11:31:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T08:01:13","slug":"nick-neptunies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/?p=5047&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Nick Neptunies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to say that I have made the final decision to formally withdraw from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%AD_Faith\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baha&#8217;i Faith<\/a>.\u00a0 First and foremost I would like to say that my life with the Baha&#8217;is and as a member of the Baha&#8217;i Faith was a wonderful experience.\u00a0 I shared many good times and I would like to thank each and every one of them for the good they brought into my life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This decision was not hard nor did I feel any pain into coming to this.\u00a0 My life as a Baha&#8217;i and now as an ex-Baha&#8217;i is the same &#8212; I am content with the choices that I make.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My life now is to be a better person in front of God and to worship Him without the need of religious dogma.\u00a0 The circumstances that lead me to leave the Baha&#8217;i Faith were a lack of a peace of mind due to obvious problematic issues in the Faith such as scriptural errancy and contradictions in the Creed that I felt were irreconcilable.\u00a0 I will not blame Baha&#8217;is for some of the negative experiences I had with a handful of Baha&#8217;is, but I must admit that some of the negative experiences I had did hasten my decision to withdraw from the Faith.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to say that I have made the final decision to formally withdraw from the Baha&#8217;i Faith.\u00a0 First and foremost I would like to say that my life with the Baha&#8217;is and as a member of the Baha&#8217;i Faith was a wonderful experience.\u00a0 I shared many good times and I would like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[999],"tags":[3883,3799,3887,2944,3881,3885,3889],"class_list":["post-5047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-former-bahais","tag-circumstances","tag-contradictions","tag-issues","tag-lack","tag-nick-neptunies","tag-peace-of-mind","tag-scriptural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5049,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions\/5049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bahaismiran.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}