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 %DIFFERENT PEOPLE RESPONSES COMMAND INJUNCTION LAW+960713
%CONTEXTS CIRCUMSTANCES HISTORY HEREDITY EXPERIENCE 960713

     People  are different from plants,  animals and  each
other.  No two people are completely identical in heredity
and their history of experiences.   Thus different  people
respond  to  situations differently in keeping with  their
essential differences.

     Some people believe that all people should respond to
religious  laws,  commandments and injunctions in the same
"proper"   way.    To  "obey"  is to respond in  the  same
"proper"  way.  Their patterns of thought are based upon a
paradigm   of  conformity  to  external  demands,    laws,
commandments  and injunctions.   Their patterns of thought
do  not allow for individual personal differences to  lead
to  different  ways  of  responding  to  religious   laws,
commandments and injunctions.

     Does  it make sense for religious leaders who profess
to  believe  in a God who created all the diversity  which
exists  among plants,  animals and people---to claim  that
they (the religious leaders) speak on behalf of such a God
in  claiming that all different  people  must  "obey"   by
conforming in the same  way in response to religious laws,
commandments   and  injunctions?    Is  obedience  to   be
understood in terms of computer-like automata?    Is there
no  legitimate  possibility of creativity in responding to
God's call?

     If  one  accepts  the  possibility  of  there   being
legitimate  creativity in responding to God's call,   what
opportunity  is  left for religious  manipulators  to  use
"God's" laws, commandments, prohibitions and prescriptions
as tools with which to control religious disciples?    Who
then  will  be in charge,  in control?   It is a  terrible
thought to suggest that each person might be in  communion
with  God  and  respond creatively in  response  to  God's
personal call.  Such a thought suggests the undermining of
all the religious authority of leading religious  leaders.
It  is an intolerable thought which must not be allowed to
be expressed openly and honestly.

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