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  %DISINTEGRATIVE RELIGIOUS LEADERS UNINFORMED BIAS+961223
%PREJUDICE ARBITRARY CAPRICIOUS REPRESSED IGNORANCE 961223

     Disintegrative    religious    leaders   are    often
disintegrative because they:

     1.  Are  uninformed by open and honest dialogue  with
the  common  people  of their own day and  place  who  are
sharing their own current personal religious experiences.

     2.  Are  ignorant  about  the personal  dilemmas  and
paradoxes  encountered  in the the everyday living of  the
common people who are neighbors to them.

     3.  Are  not seeking personal and communal  integrity
in  their  own  lives  through the sharing  of  their  own
personal lives with those whom they seek to lead.

     4.  Are  not testing the value of their own  teaching
in terms of open and honest dialogue  about the the fruits
which their teaching  bear in the lives of their followers
and of those touched by their followers.

     5.  Are  uninformed by open and honest dialogue  with
contemporaneous scientists,  scholars, writers and artists
who   echo   the  creative efforts of   people   who   are
earnestly seeking personal and communal integrity.

     6.  Stuck  in the patterns of  perception,   thought,
feeling,   analysis and thinking of the past---and so  are
unable  to  grow in healthy ways which are  responsive  to
modern changes, transformations, renewals, rebirths, etc.

     7.  Are   preoccupied   with   issues   of   control,
conformity and confirmations there-of.

     8.  Are  preoccupied with particular technologies  of
salvation,    rather  than liberated by and moved  by  any
works   of   Love   through  Holy  Spirit's   transforming
presence  and enlightenment.

     9.  Are more  preoccupied  with their own status  and
the   status of their followers;  than with the  integrity
of their lives, and the integrity of their communities.

     10.  Are  more  preoccupied with how  to  keep  their
lives   and  communities  "pure"   and  "acceptable"    by
"appropriate  exclusions"  ---  than  they are  interested
in working toward personal and communal integrity  through
the  creative integration of the experiences and  insights
of  as  many   different   people  as   are   willing   to
openly   and  honestly   share   their   experiences   and
insights   in uninhibited dialogue.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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