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>>That’s the hazard of having people involved.

Got Discernment?

We are at liberty to be real, or to be unreal. We may be true or false, the choice is ours. We may wear now one mask and now another, and never, if we so desire, appear with our own true face. But we cannot make these choices with impunity. Causes have effects, and if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them.
If we have chosen the way of falsity we must not be surprised that truth eludes us when we finally come to need it!
—Thomas Merton

“The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true.”
—Albert Einstein

I don’t disagree with you; I’m simply pointing out that anywhere people are involved, the same issues arise. A lack of complete and total truth doesn’t mean that the person/institution is completely wrong. It means they are human. The points made by Merton and Einstein are appropriate but both point to an idealistic view of reality, a view too often used to condemn ANY group who demonstrates ANY lack of forthrightness or perfection or worse still, to say I’m better than that group/person.

No man swindles himself more deeply than he who says, “I am holier than thou.”