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                             %GOD'S VICE PRESIDENTS 771015

     Some  religious leaders seem to perceive God  as  the
president  of  a Universal Corporation and  themselves  as
God's vice presidents in charge of behavior to achieve the
corporate  will.   In this image God set up the  Universal
Corporation and presides over its every operation  holding
his vice presidents accountable for the proper functioning
of  their  various departments;   e.g.,   spiritual  life,
benevolence,   evangelism,   buildings,   social   action,
worship,   politics,   music, theology, philosophy,   etc.
There  is little agreement about  just what  the range  of
responsibility   and  authority  of  each  of   the   vice
presidents  is,  primarily because usually they  are  self
appointed by each other in mutually advantageous reflexive
arrangements.

     In this corporation image of the universe the various
vice  presidents  tend  toward attempting to  fire  their
subordinates when their subordinates fail to fulfill their
expectations;    i.e.,    the  vice  presidents   try   to
excommunicate  their  subordinates  out of  the  Universal
Corporation.   Since the self appointed religious  leaders
hold  such ultimately important positions in the Universal
Corporation---they  have an ultimate concern that  they be
successful in fulfilling God's expectations of them,  lest
they be fired from their self appointed vice presidency be
cast  out  of  the Universal Corporation  into  the  outer
darkness of non-being.

     The  Universal Corporation's vice presidents  do  not
understand  that  God  is Love,   and  not  a  corporation
president. They do not understand  that  Love does not use
excommunication  as a manipulative technique to conformity
to   his   will,   since  the  essence  of  love   is   to
unconditionally  keep  channels of communication  open  to
freely  sought dialogue.   Their corporate of the universe
realizes  a  perverted perspective of the  nature  of  the
universe;   to them the nature of reality does not in  any
essential  way  incorporate  Love,  any  more  than  their
humanly  created secular corporations in any essential way
incorporate  an ultimate concern for keeping  channels  of
communication unconditionally open.

                                                                                                                               
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