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  %TRANSCENDING CONTENTIOUS RELIGIOUS RELATIONSHIPS+980319                
  %ISSUES CONTROL CONFLICT ALIENATIVE COERCIVE SINS+980319                                        
   %ADDICTIVE DISHONESTY DECEPTIVE COLLUSIONS EVILS 980319 
                                                                                                                               
     Some  religious  leaders feel called to try to  be in                                                                     
control  of people and their relationships --- in spite of                                                           
the  amount  of  alienation which  is  engendered  by  the                                        
religious leaders' involvement in:                                                                                             
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Contentious relationships,                
     2.  Preoccupations with issues of control,                                                           
     3.  Disintegrative conflicts,                                              
     4.  Coercive efforts,                                                                                                     
     5.  Addictive activities,                                                
     6.  Dishonest dealings,                                                                  
     7.  Deceptive patterns of behaviors, and 
     8.  Collusive games of mutual self deception. 
                                                                                                                               
     Other  religious  leaders  cannot  lead  towards  the                                                               
transcendence  of   the  behaviors  of such people ---  by                                                       
opposing them in  like manners;  i.e.,  by taking opposite                                                                     
sides  on issues  which  have been defined by those  whose                                                                     
behaviors need to be transcended.    Taking opposite sides                 
in  their contentious manner is to surrender to their  way      
of life; to join them in being contentious.                
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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