Sorcha, I know quite a few Bahais and they are about the least weird people I've ever encountered. They tend to be quite intelligent, quite modern-minded, very broad-minded, and intensely idealistic and progressive in regards to society. It's not a hippy thing anymore at all, although it attracted a lot of quasi-hippies in the late 60s and early 70s. Now it tends to attract upper middle class people of the more intellectual sort, I think.

The one point about Bahais that bothers me is that they are so sure they've found the True Way, as you say... ;-) I think there are many True Ways, different ones suited to different people, that's all.

But they do honor all the great prophets and all the world religions, and they consider all the great prophets to have been genuine messengers of God, each one a separate incarnation of the Christ, as it were, come into a different time to again teach humanity basic spiritual knowledge.

That's a very wise way to look at a series of great prophets from different religions, and it's pretty much how I've always looked at it.

They think that Baha'Ullah and the Bab were the LAST of those prophets (no more to come). In that respect, I think they are most likely very much in error. I'm pretty sure there are further such yet to come...and there always will be as long as human beings exist on this planet. I don't take any revelation as "the final one".