Theos-Talk Archives (February 2004 Message tt00188)

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "kpauljohnson" <kpauljohnson@y...> 
wrote:
> So we go from HPB either is exactly what and who she presented 
> herself to be or a complete fraud, no other choices allowed, to 
> anyone who criticizes her as a fraud is an object of my contempt 
and 
> everyone else ought to share that contempt. That's a not very 
> subtle form of bullying. Have seen that dozens of times from all 
> manner of true believers about various teachers, but didn't expect 
> it from this source.

Excellent post. One thing I might add is that special pleading 
always leads to some form of conscious or unconscious intellectual 
dishonesty. If the case is a valid one this is not only not 
becessary but sullies the cause the pleader is trying to promote.