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On the distinction between human beings and animals (via the Baha’i Faith)

April 25, 2009 – 11:17 pm

Are we animals or humans? What does the Baha’i Faith say about the nature of human beings and the difference between human beings and animals? I ask this question because back in college, the following view was very comforting to me: “Human beings are animals. Big-brained, language-using animals – but animals nonetheless.” I am not [...]

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Unnatural Causes

July 7, 2008 – 1:12 pm

A number of kids at the Tahirih Peace Institute, an English Language program at the Boston Baha’i Center, have chronic asthma. Negin and I teach there during the school year, and I’ve often wondered why our students suffer from increased rates of asthma compared to white and/or middle-class children we work with in other settings. [...]

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