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   %CONTENTIOUS RELIGIOUS LEADERS ORDINATION ISSUES+980826                
    %ARROGANCE SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS SABBATH CASTE SEX+980826
    %MEALS AUTHORITY CONTROL FOREIGNER EARTH SPHERE+980826                                                           
%EVOLUTION IMPOSSIBLE SLAVERY WOMEN WAR PEACE+980826      
     %RACE CONFORMITY TOLERANCE MORALITY LEGALISTIC+980826            
    %EXCOMMUNICATE ACCEPT REJECTION HOMOSEXUAL LOVE+980826
 %CONFLICT RESOLUTION RECONCILIATION HEALING SHALOM 980826                                              
                                                                                                                               
     Religious  leaders often find themselves in  conflict    
over   questions   regarding  which  ones  of   them   are                                 
sufficiently  fit  for election to significant  leadership                                                                     
positions,  ordination  to serve in those  positions,  and                                                                     
respect/support  for the service in those positions.   The                                      
conflicts  have often focused upon contentions that people                
are unfit for such service if they:                                                                                            
                                                                                                                               
     1.  Heal on the sabbath.                                                                                                  
     2.  Eat meals with low caste persons.                                                                 
     3.  Associate with unpatriotic citizens.                                                                                  
     4.  Address God in familiar terms such as "father".                                                                       
     5.  Call into question the government's authority.  
     6.  Share their religion with foreigners.                                                                                 
     7.  Say that the earth is a sphere.                                                                                       
     8.  Teach that the earth goes around the sun.                                                                             
     9.  Teach that humans evolved from "lower" creatures.                         
     10. Teach that some events are utterly impossible.                                                                        
     11. Call the institution of slavery into question.  
     12. Treat women are equal to men before God.                                                                              
     13. Question the righteousness of patriotic wars.       
     14. Treat homosexuals as equal to heterosexuals.
     15. Treat other races as equal to their own race.                   
     16. Treat other religions as worthy of respect.                                      
     17. Do not demand strict conformity to moral codes.            
     18. Tolerate uncertainty and doubt about beliefs.             
     19. Are friendly with and respect non-believers.             
     20. Are not properly arrogant and self-righteous.       
     21. Do not teach the proper forms of intolerance.  
     22. Compromise on adopted confessions of faith.                                                                           
     23. Question leaders' authority to excommunicate.                                                                
     24. Are excessively inclusive of different people.                                     
     25. Use alienative means to promote conformity.            
     26. Claim to have received new revelations of truth.                                                                      
     27. Seek to engender changes in religious traditions.                                                                     
     28. Seek to deal honestly with human sexuality.
     29. Seek to deal honestly with human addictions.                                            
     30. Seek to deal honestly with codependent behaviors.                                                       
     31. Are preoccupied with issues of control.                                                           
     32. Are NOT preoccupied with issues of control.                                                           
                                                                                                                               
     We  will  be  well  and do well when we  can  and  do                                                                     
engaged in open,  honest,  and gracious dialogue about the                                                                  
alienative  human  relationships pointed to by  the  above                                        
text.                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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