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 %IMPORTANT RELIGIOUS LEAD CONTROL IGNORANCE THEORY 920916

     It  is important to note that some religious  leaders
operate in terms of a paradigm wherein they who claim  not
to  be participating in certain kinds of activities,  also
claim  to have superior  knowledge regarding how  best  to
participate  in those activities.  Their claims presumably
involve  theoretical knowledge which  they  claim to  have
with assured certainty that  gives them the right to be in
control of other people's lives.  It seems  reasonable  to
suggest  that such behavior is part of the pervasive human
pattern  of addiction to trying to be in control  of  self
and  others;   and  to dishonest efforts to  maintain  the
appearance of success in such unsuccessful efforts.

     Addicts  seek to appear to achieve various  kinds  of
perfection,  including perfect avoidance of behavior which
they  regard as taboo;  and so the grounds for  rejection,
alienation,     excommunication,    disfellowship   and/or
banishment  from their human community of open and  honest
decalogue.  This type of addictive behavior makes no sense
because  it  leads  to  the  break-down  of  personal  and
communal integrity---which break-down is clearly evil.

     It   is even more non-when addicts who  claim not  to
be  participating in certain types of behavior  lay  claim
to    superior    knowledge   (on   purely     theoretical
grounds)   regarding  how  best  to  participate  in  such
activities;  and lay down legalistic rules regarding which
forms  of  participation in such behavior are  appropriate
grounds  for  rejection,  alienation,     excommunication,
disfellowship   and/or   banishment   from   their   human
"community  of  open and honest dialogue."  How  open  and
honest can people be in dialogue about their experience in
participating  in such behavior,  when they are threatened
with  excommunication  due to  the  influence  of powerful
people  who presume to have appropriate power,  to control
other  people's  behavior under circumstances  of  claimed
ignorance  regarding current involvement in such kinds  of
behavior? In the absence of open and honest dialogue about
experiences with such behaviors,  how can people  be  well
informed about the consequences of such behaviors? How are
theoretical hypotheses to be openly and  honestly  tested,
discussed,   and be shown to be true or false  under  such
circumstances?
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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