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  %TRULY HOLY SACRED REVERENCE CREATIVE RENEWAL JOY+940724
 %FALSE MYSTERY CONFUSION QUESTION COLLUSION ADDICT 940724

     That  which is truly holy and sacred---elicits honest
reverence, creative responses, renewing growth and joy.

     That   which  is  falsely  mysterious,    addictively
confusing   and   collusively  beyond   question---elicits
dishonest reverence,  disintegrative responses,  deadening
paralysis and depression.

     Often  people  who are responding to  that  which  is
falsely mysterious,  addictively confusing and collusively
beyond   question---regard  their  response  as   properly
religious.  They view those who are honestly responding to
that  which is truly holy and sacred---as evil people  who
are   not  conforming  to  proper  religious   rules   and
regulations.

     Dishonest  religious leaders are fearfully  deceptive
in  their leadership.   They  do not respect  or  tolerate
truly secure people  who respond  creatively to that which
is truly  holy  and  sacred  in  unregulated  spontaneity.
Dishonest religious leaders often play  collusive games of
mutual  self-deception---and  fear that honest people will
expose the weaknesses in their fabric of deception.

     That  which  is truly holy and sacred is  not  beyond
question  because it is not part of a collusive fabric  of
deception.    God  does not repress questions,  doubts  or
honesty.    When  questions,   doubts,   and  honesty  are
repressed, it is not the work of God.

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