On Jul 2, 2007, at 12:32 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
> Unless of course he was talking of fences as symbols....
Exactly. As symbols for separating oneself from
the outside world.
I thought so. That was my instinctive take on it.
It's interesting to me that someone who rails on others for
dishonesty of all sorts is actually the one who is consistently
dishonest!
There's a principle in Islam where one is allowed to lie if it is to
protect Islam. I think we see the same phenomenon in various systems
of belief, where anything is fine if it is to protect the 'purity of
the teaching', even if that means being dishonest in argumentation,
intention and methods.
