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   %DISHONEST FAITH BELIEF CONVICTION WORKS MIRACLE+941006
%TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE COLLUSION COERCIVE VIOLENCE SIN+941006
%ELIMINATE LACK DEVIL ALIENATION ESTRANGE ADDICTION+941006
 %SALVATION REDEMPTION SCIENCE PARADIGM EXCLUSIVITY 941006

     There  are many people who teach that all things  are
possible  to  those  people who properly believe and  have
adequate faith.    In their view great works and  miracles
are  made possible by high levels of faith and conviction,
and  that nothing  is impossible in the face  of  adequate
faith and conviction which is free of doubt.

     We  need  to ask if the following is possible on  the
basis of great faith and conviction:

     1.  Self  cures  of  alcoholism and  other  forms  of
addiction  on the basis of the convictions of  the addicts
that by trying harder they will be able cure themselves.

     2.  Salvation through faithfulness to commandments of
prohibition and prescription by those who have great faith
in the effectiveness of such efforts.

     3.  The  elimination of communal conflict  by  people
who  have  great faith in their superior power  to  coerce
and/or disintegrate their perceived enemies.

     4.  The  superior  management  of  a  corporation  or
business on the basis of the great self confidence of  the
CEO that he and he alone knows what must be done,  in what
order, and by whom.

     5.  The  revival  of  the life  and  integrity  of  a
religious  organization through the great faith of leaders
within    the   organization   that    their    particular
interpretation   of   their   carefully   selected    holy
scriptures is  the  one and only way to properly interpret
their scriptures, and that any people who differ with them
are agents of the devil.

     6.    The   discovery of endless supplies of   fossil
fuel within a few miles of the surface of the earth on the
basis of great faith and conviction that there will always
be more.

     7.  The  human exploration in person of all parts  of
the  universe on the  basis of great faith that it is  our
human destiny to explore and populate the whole universe.

     8.  The  objective  understanding of all  aspects  of
being  fully   human on the basis of great faith  in   the
paradigm which says that reliable understanding comes only
through detachment of the knower from the object of study.

     9.  The improvement of science education by increased
dedication  to  and  faith in  the  objective paradigm  of
exact   scientists  as  the  key  to   improving   science
education.

     10.  The  elimination  of  evil  by  identifying  and
eliminating all people who are evil.

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