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      %RELIGIOUS CODEPENDENT ADDICT FIX LAW CONTROL+940517
              %PERFECT FAULT FLAW MISTAKE SIN DEVIL 940517

     Spirituality   and  religiosity  are  not  the   same
reality.

     Spirituality has to  do with us  seeking to encourage
and  enable  relationships  which are  increasingly  open,
honest,  balanced, safe, secure, intimate,  vulnerable and
integrative.

     Religiosity  has  to do with  organizing,   managing,
controlling,   systematizing,   codifying,    ritualizing,
inscribing   and  otherwise  expressing  as   groups   our
collective awareness of all that transcends us.

     Addictive people approach religious expressions  with
attitudes  and in ways which often lead to their  becoming
religious leaders  who  are  preoccupied  with  religious:
fixes, manipulative  techniques,    legalistic   controls,
sophisticated rules and regulations,  technical judgments,
perfectionism,  exclusivity, etc.

     Often  spiritual  people find themselves  drawn  into
relationships  with  addictive and religious people,   and
they    become   codependent   supporters   of   addictive
religiosity  without understanding how their  spirituality
become perverted, rather than refined.

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