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    %RELIGIOUS LEADERS BELIEFS ESSENTIAL KEYS RIGHT+020428
  %BELIEFS RITUALS TRADITIONS EVIDENCE CONTRARY GOD+020428
 %GRACIOUS UNIQUE PERSONAL DESIRES DISPOSITIONS WAY+020428
 %FEARS HOPES ASPIRATIONS CIVILITY COOPERATION GOOD+020428
 %ISSUES POWER DOMINANCE CONTROL LOYALTY CONFORMITY 020428
                                                          
     Many  religious leaders believe that (and act as  if)
the  essential  key to right behaviors  and  relationships
(righteousness)   is to be found only in their  particular
right/traditional  beliefs and rituals.  They resist  many
suggestions  that they should consider the evidence to the
contrary which is all around them;  i.e.,  that there  are
more  essential  keys than those few which they have  been
willing  to consider;  e.g.  the following kinds  of  keys
should be considered, among others.                       
                                                          
1.  Careful/gracious consideration of each other's  unique
personal:    desires,    dispositions,    fears,    hopes,
aspirations, etc.                                         
                                                          
2. Attention to the essential foundations of both personal
and communal integrities and integration.                 
                                                          
3.   Much  attention upon the  importance  of:   civility,
cooperation,  gentleness,  balance,  patience,  mutuality,
tolerance, etc.                                           
                                                          
4.   The building up of,  and the regular maintenance  of,
communal sanctuaries ---  within which all people can know
security in being safely vulnerable; and within which they
can  truly  feel free to be safely vulnerable  ---   while
being  true  to themselves and each  other person  who  is
"different"  ---  within intimate relationships which  are
truly  balanced  and mutual;  rather than  unbalanced  and
focused upon issues of control, power and dominance.      
                                                          
      Too  often  religious leaders'  preoccupations  with
issues of control,  power and dominance ---  lead them  to
compromise  due  consideration  of  complementary  issues,
concerns   and  desires  for:   integrity,    integration,
civility,   cooperation,  gentleness,  balance,  patience,
mutuality,  tolerance,  sanctuaries, intimacy,  and sexual
pleasures.    As  a result religious leaders often  become
embroiled in:  cases of sexual abuse,  dysfunctional abuse
of power, and conflict over right:  beliefs, rituals,  and
patterns of conformity.                                   
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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