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 %SPEAK FOR GOD FORGIVE LIBERATE PRISON LIFT BURDEN+951208
%SEVERE STERN AUSTERE ASCETIC ADDICTIVE CODEPENDENT 951208

     Some  severe  and stern religious leaders presume  to
speak for God  in  enforcing prohibitions,  prescriptions,
commandments,   disciplines,  judgements,   condemnations,
excommunications and other alienative procedures which are
in keeping with  their  own  severe and stern assumptions,
prejudices,  attitudes, beliefs,  convictions,  values and
ideals.    Such severe  and  stern religious leaders often
seek to be in  control;  and  are intolerant of charitable
religious  leaders who presume to reveal God as  Love  ---
and as sacrificially interested in serving to liberate the
imprisoned and the oppressed,    offering  and   expanding
alternatives,   promoting forgiveness and  reconciliation,
and working for conflict-resolution and cooperation. Often
severe and stern religious leaders are inclined to crucify
those  charitable  religious leaders who expose  and  make
clear  the alienative and disintegrative  consequences  of
the ways of severe and stern religious leaders.

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