On Feb 7, 2004, at 12:51 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
Andries Krugers Dagneaux wrote:
I know a lot about gurus, small sects and cults. I noticed that the articles here in this wikipedia are often written by the followers of these gurus, sects and cults or the information on the webpages of these religious organization is uncritically accepted by other members and written down as a NPOV article in wikipedia.
What the groups believe is what they believe, and who better to describe that than the cult's leaders? This does not imply that we accept these as truth, or that we are uncritical about their claims.
Precisely. We do not accept beliefs necessarily as fact. We *do* necessarily accept the believing as fact. One simply *must* admire the English language...
Peter
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