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  %INSECURE PEOPLE THREAT CONTROL GOD ADDICT DEPEND 921209

     Insecure people who lack true self confidence are the
people  who are most likely to threaten and try to control
other people in the manner of addicts and codependents.

     If God is the creator of the universe and as powerful
as is suggested by the  role which God is presumed to have
played,   would God be insecure and lack self  confidence?
Would God be so insecure,  lacking in self  confidence and
in self esteem that God would  be prone to threaten people
with punishment for failure to conform?   Would God be the
kind of God who would try to control people in the  manner
of addicts and codependents; or would God be kind, gentle,
compassionate, forgiving, sympathetic, and unconditionally
inclined to be in dialogue with people in trouble?

     In light of the above considerations,  why is it that
so  many people (including religious leaders)   have  been
prone  to  portray  and  think  of God  in  terms  of  the
behaviors  which are so characteristic of people who  lack
self  confidence  and self esteem in the manner of addicts
and  codependents?  Most likely it is because such  people
themselves  lack self confidence,  self  esteem  and  true
security of the kinds which an all powerful, kind, gentle,
compassionate, forgiving,  sympathetic and unconditionally
accepting  God  would  be inclined to offer to  people  in
trouble.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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