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 %RELIGIOUS LEADER DEMAND CONFORMITY STANDARD FIRST+020107
 %ACCEPT INTO OPEN HONEST DIALOGUE QUESTIONS OTHERS+020107
 %DISTRUST RISKY INTIMACY FRIENDSHIP DOMINATION GOD+020107
    %QUALIFYING CONFORMITY PREREQUISITES FELLOWSHIP+020107
    %BEGIN RECONCILIATION COOPERATION WORK TOGETHER+020107
    %SACRIFICE PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY IDOLATRY 020107
                                                          
                                                          
     If it is o.k. for religious leaders to demand that   
       people conform to the religious leaders' standards 
         --- before the religious leaders will be willing 
           to engage in open and honest dialogue with     
             the people in question --- the religious     
               leaders have set themselves up to be       
                 successfully-dominant over vulnerable    
                   people; in great contrast to what      
                     Jesus himself did.                   
                                                          
     If people are not accepted into open and honest      
       dialogue in the absence of qualifying conformity;  
         it is impossible to begin any process of         
           reconciliation, peacemaking, and conflict-     
             resolution.  Antagonists stay on opposing    
               sides of battle lines and offend each      
                 other until all are dead or dying.       
                                                          
     If dedications to positions-taken are defended with  
       ultimate concern --- regardless of the costs to    
        personal and communal integrity; the people are   
          idolaters and perish --- as they sacrifice      
            their personal and communal integrities upon  
              the alters of the positions which they have 
                taken and worshipped with ultimate        
                  concern, passion and dedication.        
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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