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  %EXCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS LEADERS LACK INTEGRITY PRIDE+980721                       
   %ESSENCE ROOTS DEVIL SINS ALIENATION PEACE PRIDE+980721                  
   %CONFLICT RESOLUTION VIOLENCE CONTROL DISCIPLINE+980721           
  %CONFORMITY INSECURITY DEFENSIVE CONTENTIOUS FAIL 980721            
                                                                                                                               
     Religious  leaders  who claim to be disciples of  one                                                                     
very special person --- lack integrity  and undermine both                                                    
personal  and communal integrity when they are very  proud                                                                
of:                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     1.  What separates them.                                                                                                  
     2.  What makes them better than each than other.                                                               
     3.  Their arrogance and self-righteousness.       
     4.  How contentious they are.                
     5.  Their preoccupations with issues of control.                                                           
     6.  How skillfully they identify human imperfections.                                            
     7.  Their own special forms of human perfection.                   
     8.  Their willingness to make costly sacrifices.                                                                          
     9.  Their forms technological superiority.                                                  
     10. How firmly they are grounded in the past.                                               
                                                                                                                               
     Such leaders  regard peacemakers and  facilitators of                                 
conflict  resolution  and integration  --- as  traitors to                                              
their  causes;  and so as unworthy of respect,  honor  and                                      
support.                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                               
     Such  leaders  regard exclusivity and  alienation  as                       
signs of being faithful to their special calling --- to be                                                             
righteous through purity, discipline and conformity.       
                                                                                                                               
     We will  do well and be well when we recognize, name,                                                                     
describe  and talk about  the essence of sin and evil  ---                  
formal in disintegrative values,   ideals,  and principles                                         
which  engender  exclusivity  and alienation  through  the                       
exclusive works of such tragic leaders.                       
                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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