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 %IDOLIZE RELIGIOUS INTEGRATIVE LEADER EXCLUDE LOVE 901102

There  is a tendency for many of the followers of many  of
the  truly great integrative and religious leaders to turn
their leader into an idol in an idolatrous way, which does
violence to that to which their leaders pointed. The error
of  the followers is often in their exclusivity;  for they
fail  to  recognize or believe the integrative  truths  to
which their leaders pointed.

Too often followers of great leaders do not understand the
truths to which their leaders have pointed,  and in  terms
of which their leaders have been regarded as great.   Even
so,   common  people can participate in that  which  their
great leaders have participated in,  and in terms of which
they have come to be regarded as great.

Petty  followers  have  often  regarded  greatness  as  an
exclusive  attribute in which only a very few people  such
as  their  great leaders can possibly  participate.   Such
petty   followers  regard  getting/being  close  to   such
greatness  as a right which is reserved for a chosen  few,
and/or   a   few   who   qualify  by   virtue   of   great
accomplishments.

Petty followers often trivialize the truths to which their
ostensible leaders have pointed, turning those truths into
technical  tools which they manipulate in power plays  and
in  collusive games of mutual self deception.  Such  petty
followers  are not seeking to participate in or share open
and honest truths. They seek to use the truth as a tool in
technocratic  manipulations by which they seek to  achieve
their  own salvation according to the desires and  devices
of  their own hearts.  Such petty followers are  respected
only  with  great danger to those who respect  and  accept
their leadership.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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