--- In [email protected], Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
I can agree with this. I've seen it in dozens of spiritual groups.
