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%RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS FOCUSED MUCH ATTENTION SINS 040330
 %CONFORMAL RITUALS DOCTRINES CONFESSIONS AVOIDANCE 040330
  %DOMINATION SYSTEM COERCIVE DECEPTIVE PRETENTIOUS 040330
%SELF RIGHTEOUS ARROGANT EXCLUSIVE ADDICTIVE DEVILS 040330
%RELATIONSHIPS PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITIES SEXUAL 040330
  %SANCTUARY INTIMACY SAFELY INVULNERABLE DEFENSIVE 040330

     It  is interesting that religious  institutions  have
often  focused much attention upon the failures of members
of the  institutions  to  conform  as  regards:   rituals,
doctrines, confessional-statements,  and avoidance of non-
conformists;

     but little attention upon: domineering, coercive,
     deceptive, pretentious, self-righteous,  arrogant,
     exclusive, addictive, collusive, and generally
     alienative people.

     Religious  institutions have demonstrated  relatively
little  interest  in being committed to  facilitating  and
promoting both personal-integrity and  communal-integrity;
e.g.,   through facilitating and promoting the development
of   healthy  patterns  of  intimacy,   authenticity   and
sexuality   in   young   people  through  the   years   of
adolescence.      The  building  of   and  maintenance  of
communal  sanctuaries  within which people  exchange  free
gifts  of the freedom to be safely vulnerable is rarely  a
characteristic    activity    for    mainline    religious
institutions.    Such sanctuaries need not be buildings or
geographic  locations.     They may be networks  of  human
relationships   not  tied  to  buildings   or   geographic
locations.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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