This is http://www.essayz.com/b0211123.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %UNBIASED UNPREJUDICED CERTAIN CONFESSION JUSTICE+021112 %DOMINEERING RELIGIOUS LEADERS EMPHASIS FOLLOWERS+021112 %SEXUAL ABUSE COVERED PRACTICES BENEFITS PATTERNS+021112 %SUBSERVIENT VULNERABLE POWERFUL CORRUPTION DEVILS+021112 %TRUST RESPECT HONOR SUPPORT MOTIVATIONS INTENTION+021112 %FEARS DESIRES HOPES ANXIETIES COLLUSIONS ADDICTION 021112 Why is it that many domineering religious leaders have put much emphasis upon their followers making regular confessions to the religious leaders? Is it always because making confessions is beneficial to those who make the confessions? Or, is it to a significant extent because the practice of regular confessions keeps one class of people vulnerable/subservient to a more powerful and less vulnerable class of people? How is one to discern the extent to which various motivations have played significant roles in maintaining the traditions? Who is in an unbiased position to make the necessary determination of what is true, what is false and what is pretense? Who is to say in an unbiased/unprejudiced way? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================