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  %CONFESSIONAL RECITATION FORMAL BELIEF STATEMENTS 031001
   %COERCED DOMINATED DISHONESTY ACCEPTANCE HONORED 031001
   %EXCOMMUNICATION THREATENED NONCONFORMITY DEVILS 031001
  %DOMINEERING LEADERS FOLLOWERS ADDICTED CERTAINTY 031001
  %OWN EXPERIENCED THOUGHTS MEDITATION PRAYERS SINS 031001
%SHARE FREE GIFTS SAFELY VULNERABLE SECURITY LOVERS 031001

     When   domineering  religious  leaders  COERCE  their
followers  to  RECITE FORMAL confessional  statements  ---
statements  which their  followers do not articulate  from
their  own experiences and/or DO NOT TRULY BELIEVE --- the
process  of  making confessional statements  is  degraded,
prostituted,  and rendered meaningless.   In the processes
just described  the COERCIVE/DOMINEERING religious leaders
are teaching their followers  to tell lies in  order to be
accepted  as  "good"   people of the faith.    Under  what
circumstances  can  such  COERCIVE/DOMINEERING   behaviors
promote  any  personal  or communal  forms  of  integrity?
Under  what circumstances can   such  COERCIVE/DOMINEERING
behaviors be revered, honored  or  supported with personal
and/or communal integrity?

     In  the light of thoughtful and honest  consideration
of what the above comments points to ---  how are  honest-
people and true-lovers to  share  their  own  beliefs  and
faith in meaningful ways?  Not under coercion!   Not under
the leadership of domineering religious  leaders  who have
formal powers of  excommunication!    Not under any threat
(overt, covert or tacit)  of excommunication!

     We  can truly share our own beliefs,  thoughts,   and
faith in meaningful ways  --- only within  the contexts of
sanctuary  communities  within  which all  members  freely
share gifts of the freedom  to be safely vulnerable within
open and honest dialogue about what matters to them most.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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