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     %GOOD CHRISTIAN MARTYR EVIL RESCUE ADDICT LOVE 890411

     So  long  as  good  religious  leaders  teach   their
faithful  followers  that  individual  personal  salvation
depends  upon being servants willing to rescue people  who
do not take good care of themselves-----so long there will
be  people who are taught by good religious  martyrs  that
they  may get loving attention by creating for  themselves
good  crises  which  will  provide  opportunity  for  good
religious service. The religious leaders may be Christian,
Jewish,  Muslim, or of some other orientation.  The effect
will  be  much  the  same regardless  of  their  religious
orientation.

     If  religious leaders do not understand the  dynamics
of  the  interpersonal relationships between  addicts  and
their servant codependents, then the religious leaders are
bound to lead their followers into the collusive games  of
mutual  self  deception which characterize  the  dishonest
relationships between addicts and their codependents.

     If  religious  leaders mislead their  followers  into
believing  that  salvation is purely  a  personal  matter,
dependent   upon   individual  personal   efforts;    then
individuals  will  play games of mutual self deception  in
which they will deny the importance of communal  integrity
as   being  essential  to  being  serene   with   personal
integrity.

     If God is regarded as a supremely powerful addict  in
whose  service  his worshipers are to take care  of  frail
addicts  who  cannot take care of  themselves,   then  the
worshipers   are   bound   as   addicts    to   imprisoned
codependents.   If  God is regarded as  the  most  perfect
addict who is in control,  all knowing,  and all powerful;
then  God's servants are bound to be dutiful  codependents
willing  to take care of addicts without regard for  their
own  integrity.   They will actively  encourage  addictive
behavior  and supportive codependent behavior.   Addictive
religious  leaders  are  bound  by  their  conceptions  to
portray  God  as being like they want to be,  but as  more
powerful  and  perfect  in keeping  with  their  addictive
ideals and technologies.

     The  roots  of  the addictive society  may  be  found
nurtured  by  religious  beliefs regarding the  nature  of
human  fulfillment and salvation.  Those religious beliefs
may overtly presume to be working to save people from  the
evils  of  addictive  behavior,  while at  the  same  time
blindly leading people into such addictive behavior.  This
is  likely  to  be  particularly true  in  a  technocratic
society  which lacks people able to clarify  honestly  the
ways  in  which techniques,  ideals  and  values  interact
dynamically.

     The addict is constantly seeking to solve problems by
use of one manipulative technique or another  manipulative
technique,   techniques  which are designed  to  help  the
addict  gain control over the chaos and confusion which is
so  characteristic of addictive living.  The effort of the
addict  is  to  find the way to  manipulative  success  by
knowing  what  buttons  to push on  machines  and  people.
Different kinds of addicts operate at different levels  of
sophistication;  some at very low sophistication,  some at
very  high levels of sophistication.  People who  are  not
open  and  honest about their manipulative  efforts,   who
pretend  that their efforts are of greater value,  meaning
and   power  than  they  really  are;   such  people   are
contributors to the addictive/technocratic society's games
of mutual self deception.

     Technocrats  are  people who have learned  to  value,
devise  and use techniques,  but have not learned to  deal
openly  and  honestly  with issues of  values  and  ideals
related to human meaning and significance.  To technocrats
all issues are purely technical issues.  They do not  have
the   competence  necessary  to  deal  meaningfully   with
conflicts among values and ideals; much less to be helpful
in   resolving  conflicts  to  the  satisfaction  of   the
participants  in human expressions of the conflicts  among
ideals and values.  Technocrats are addicted to techniques
of all kinds:  mechanical, electrical, chemical,  nuclear,
business,   legal,  moral,  ethical,  religious,  medical,
psychological, scholarly, spiritual, etc.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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