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  %CHRISTIAN INTOLERANCE ARROGANCE DIFFERENT OTHERS+960404
%RELIGION BIGOTRY JEW MUSLIM CATHOLIC EASTERN ROMAN+960404
%PROTESTANT DENOMINATION DOCTRINE RITUAL GOVERNANCE 960404

     Leaders  of  Judeo-Christian   religious  groups have
often been intolerant of people whom  they have defined as
being improperly different.    Such religious leaders have
out of fear insisted on conformity---on their terms.  They
have  been motivated by fears which have been grounded  in
ignorance,    misunderstanding  and  confusion---and  have
opposed  education,  conflict-resolution and clarification
which  could reduce such fears and the violence which flow
from such fears.

     Leaders  of  Judeo-Christian  religious  groups  have
often  been  intolerant of people who differed in  regards
to:

     DOCTRINES         RITUALS          GOVERNANCE

     SCRIPTURES        LIFE-STYLES      SEXUAL-PREFERENCE

     EDUCATION         SCIENCE          LITERATURE

     NATIONALITY       ETHNIC-ORIGIN    ECONOMICS

     Such intolerance has  not been  limited to people who
are outside the Judeo-Christian  religious:    Jews, Roman
Catholics,   Eastern Orthodox,  Muslims,  Bahai,  the wide
spectrum of Protestant Denominations and  splinters off of
those denominations,  and yet others.  The intolerance  is
often  the  most  vicious  when visited  upon  members  of
differing Judeo-Christian religions!   People with much in
common  as  regards  to  heritage---are intolerant of each
other,   as  well as intolerant of  members  of  religious
groups which have no historical common roots. The logic of
this intolerance would be  hard to explain to  intelligent
creatures from outside Planet Earth---probably because the
intolerance is not logical or even reasonable.

     Intolerance  is  usually  rooted  in  fear,  anxiety,
ignorance, misunderstanding, mis-information and spiritual
blindness.      Institutionalized   intolerance   promotes
ignorance, misunderstanding, mis-information and spiritual
blindness---often    within   Judeo-Christian    religious
assemblies.   The transcendence  of the collusive games of
mutual self deception of such assemblies would be a worthy
focus  for  prayer  life within such  assemblies---but  it
rarely is.

     Intolerance  is  usually  valued  by  people  who are
preoccupied with addictions and  addictive  values system.
People who want to transcend the violence which is usually
associated with   intolerance  need  to  seek  honesty and
integrity in order to transcend intolerance.

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