Bahá'í majority country: Possible?

Apparently Vineland has been done to death, so I decided to find another country and change it completely.

The Bahá'í faith believes in universal values, and does not believe in violence. So my question is this: Is it possible to have a Bahá'í majority country at any point in time with a pod after 1900? It would be very interesting if, for example, the area known as Israel/Palestine, an area known for it's wars and hostility, would become a Bahá'í country. How would this happen, and how would it affect the middle-east? Considering the fact that the Bahá'í holy cities are Haifa and Acre, not Jerusalem.
 
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I don't think being a member of any faith has curbed human tendency for violence. If you somehow replaced Israeli Jews with Bahá'ísts I doubt the region would be any more peaceful.
 
And if they really do maintain their renunciation of violence then you need to put their nation somewhere without potentially-aggressive neighbours... Either that or give it a superpower as protector.
 
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And if they really do maintain their renunication of violence then you need to put their nation somewhere without potentially-aggressive neighbours... Either that or give it a superpower as protector.

Evidently the King of Samoa converted to Baha'i -- OTL it didn't seem to cacth on with the populace, but if it did, that would meet the OP. And Samoa has both peaceful neighbors and a protective superpower.
 
" does not believe in violence."

i don't think that the above completely describes what Bahá'ís believe about violence. i don't know if this has very much importance to this thread, but i think the general teaching is that, in general, Bahá'ís are taught to prefer others before themselves. On a personal level, the teachings of His Holiness the Christ apply of course - that of turning the other cheek. However there are many circumstances where violence might be necessary. 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the Son of Bahá'u'lláh, indicated that if a thief violently entered a home, the owner had the obligation to protect the others, even at the cost of his/her own life.

Since the Bahá'í Faith comes to affirm the spiritual teachings of the Messengers of the past, as well as to bring new social teachings for this day and age, the new teachings have to do with world unity and the necessity of a world government, which, when necessary, protect the rights and defend those nation-states who might be attacted by their neighbors. In this type of international armed force, Bahá'ís could participate.

In the U.S. for example, there is the provision by the U.S. government for those who are not willing, under a religious teaching, to kill. This status must be applied for and is (or at least was) the IAO status, that of concientious cooperator. This means that the individual would be inducted into the military but not provided with weapons training. Many Bahá'ís who were drafted in the Viet-Nam conflict obtained this status and served in Viet-Nam, usually as medics.

This post is a little rambling i suppose. One of the things i have learned as a Bahá'í is that in any given situation usually several of the spiritual teachings need to be applied, teachings that include love, unity, speaking frankly, forgiveness, prefering others before oneself and many others. Too often we try to apply only one of the spiritual teachings and run into problems.

Thank you for your time and have a great evening! :)
 
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