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%GODS WILL IDOLATRY ADDICTION COLLUSION FEARS FAIL 990701
Many religious leaders have skillfully rationalized
motivations which have been engendered by:
1. Lust for power.
2. Fear of that which is unfamiliar.
3. Nostalgia for the good-old-days.
4. Addictive foci of perfection and control.
5. Communal prejudices.
6. Communal traditional injustices.
7. The profitable institution of slavery.
8. Traditional macho thinking about women/children.
9. Traditional macho tendencies towards violence.
10. Mental diseases within religious leaders.
11. Fears of intimacy and vulnerability.
12. Desires for security via invulnerability.
13. Presumptions of the knowledge of good and evil.
When listening to contentious religious leaders we
need to consider carefully all the possible motivations
for their learned disputations. Then we need to look for
evidence for and against each possible motivation as
playing significant roles in leading minds down the paths
of rationalizations.
It is not only the overt logic which needs to be
examined. The context within which the logic is offered
--- also needs to be examined.
It is not only what is said which needs to be
examined. We also need to think carefully about what is
significant because it is not said; and what is
significant about the lives of religious leaders---because
of what they do NOT do.
The actions of religious leaders speak louder than
their words. The absence of appropriate actions on the
part of religious leaders --- often speakS even louder
than do their actions.
We need to cast our thoughtful nets broadly --- if we
are to catch onto the motivations which really lead
religious leaders --- to NOT DO what they should have
done, to do what they do, to NOT say what they should have
said, and to say what they they do say. Too often
attention is focused almost exclusively on that which is
the least revealing. Why?
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