Karma, baby, karma. DCP has made a career of criticizing those who stop believing in his church. He reincarnates almost daily as a lightning rod. Then feigns not knowing why he would be the subject of counter-criticism by those he has targeted and maligned.
"I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal." Groucho Marx
"The truth has no defense against a fool determined to believe a lie." Mark Twain
The best lack all conviction, while the worst//Are full of passionate intensity." Yeats
There's another thread on the board about Jeffrey Holland ripping on the missionaries in Britain and telling them that if the mission were a horse, he'd shoot it. Holland's remarks - elitist, out-of-touch with reality, even abusive - are indicative of a larger malaise that's infected leadership for a long time.
Kevin Pearson, dick though he may be, is simply playing the game he learned. He, as a general authority, knows how the average TBM views him and his colleagues. It's almost a blank check to be as strident, arrogant, and hostile to the members as he wants. He's one of the anointed, one of the lesser mouthpieces of God who takes his marching orders directly from the actual mouthpieces of God.
"There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path.”