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%DECEIVING GOD 821206
Authoritarian parents bring up authoritarian children
who act as if they respect authoritarians who exercise
power over them. In practice children compete for the
right to exercise authority over others, and to be
consistent children show respect for those who exercise
authority over them. If children did not show respect
for those people who exercise authority over them now,
the children would tend to undermine the power structure
within which there is meaning in their struggle to
become one of the persons who enjoy the privilege of
exercising power over others.
A culture which is authoritarian and conceives the
ultimate power of the universe to be an authoritarian god,
is bound to have some problems with integrity. Members of
the culture will have been trained to show respect for
authority when in their hearts and minds they do not feel
and think in respectful ways. The culture will lack
integrity and will have difficulty dealing with the
concept of an all-powerful and all-knowing god who is an
authoritarian in the image of their parents. If god is
made in the image of authoritarian parents the children
of god will naturally behave in the image of obedient
children, who without feeling and honesty show respect
for other authoritarian children. That image is
inconsistent with the concept of a God that is Love. The
result is that the people of the culture will lack the
integrity to deal openly and honestly with each other
and with the ultimate powers of the universe; their
culture will lack integrity and survival value. It
will not survive long in an environment that does
not show respect for self-deception, collusions, and
dishonesty. God's natural laws are not participants in
the collusions of authoritarian people.
The practice of mutual deception depends upon people
not being aware of each other's thoughts and feelings,
apart from explicit efforts to communicate such thoughts
and feelings to each other. Authoritarians desensitize
people to achieve this degree of non-awareness and
believe that "mind-reading" is impossible in order to
facilitate mutual deception. By extension they believe
that God cannot know their inner feelings and thoughts,
and believe that they are deceiving an authoritarian God.
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