Professor Juan Cole of the University of Michigan commented in April 2001 that, since 1968, 50% of the people who entered the bahai faith have left it. According to him, the usual figure for most Christian denominations is approximately 80% retention, meaning about only 20% decide to leave once they become a member. See Professor Cole’s comment below that even 5 million Baha’is worldwide is exaggerated by the Baha’i administration.
50% is truly a remarkably high number and reveals emphatically that something is indeed wrong about the atmosphere within the bahai faith. Often the new adherent quickly comes to realize someting is wrong behind the facade of love and brotherhood.
The FULL TEXT of the New Mexico lawsuit reveals what many of the problems are that are driving sensitive and thoughtful people out of the bahai faith in droves.
Juan Cole has also stated that according to the official census figures of India there are approximately only 5,000 bahais that they were able to find in the country compare with the millions claimed by the bahai administration, a fact worth lingering on….
Nation |
Census data |
Bahá’í-cited data |
Barbados |
178[1] |
3,138[2] |
Belize |
202[3][4] |
7,776[2] |
Canada |
18,945[5] |
30,000[6]; 46,587[2] |
Guyana |
500[7] |
13,045[2] |
India |
4,572[8][9] |
1,880,000[2] |
Mauritius |
639[10] |
23,703[2] |
Sources:
3. “2010 Census of Belize Overview”. 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
4. “2010 Census of Belize Detailed Demographics of 2000 and 2010”. 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
5. “2011 National Household Survey: Data tables”. Statistics Canada. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
9. “Population Enumeration Data (Final Population)”. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
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