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     %BLIND FAITH ADDICT COLLUSION RELIGIOUS BELIEF 891122

     Many  times  religious and political  leaders  invite
their  thoughtless followers to demonstrate blind faith in
the  beliefs of their community.  Often the community is a
community of people playing collusive games of mutual self
deception. How are wise people to avoid getting trapped in
such collusive games?

     Often  miracles occur which could not  reasonably  be
expected   to   occur.    Miracles   transcend   collusive
expectations   and  cannot  reasonably  be   expected   by
participants  in collusions.  Collusive leaders often  use
the reality of miracles to rationalize the very  collusive
system   which   makes  the  miracles  to  appear  to   be
impossible, and so miraculous.  Such rationalization lacks
integrity    and   leads   to   communal   and    personal
disintegration.

     The  essence  of collusive games is dishonesty.    To
avoid  being  trapped in collusive games we need  to  seek
honesty, and both personal and communal integrity. We need
to  be  prayerful,  thoughtful,  alert,   attentive,   and
perceptive  enough to detect the many signs of  dishonesty
and disintegration.  Most participants in collusions  have
drifted  into  their  collusions  without  honest  prayer,
thought, attention or perceptivity.

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