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 %WALTER WINK POWERS THAT BE JESUS TEACH ROLE MODEL 040802
 %DOMINATION SYSTEM SUBVERT UNDERMINE EXPOSE REVEAL 040802
 %ALTERNATIVE TRUE LOVERS INTIMACIES SEXUALITY FALL 040802
  %INDICTMENT OUTCASTS VICTIMS WOMEN CHILDREN OWNED 040802
  %HEAL TOUCHED IMPURE SICKNESS DISOBEDIENCE LOYALS 040802
 %RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION PRISONS ARROGANCE RIGHTEOUS 040802

      In his powerfully written book "The Powers That Be"
Walter  Wink  describes Jesus as a teacher who  at  every
turn  in  his  teaching,  role-modeling and  actions  ---
worked  to subvert and undermine "The Domination  System"
and all of its beneficiaries.  Wink wrote:  "Almost every
sentence   Jesus   uttered  was  an  indictment  of   The
Domination System or the disclosure of an alternative  to
it." (page 84)

     1.  Jesus associated with, healed, touched, ate-with
and affirmed the outcast-victims-of-domination: women and
children  who  were owned by men;  impure people  due  to
sickness   and/or  disobedience  of  men's-laws;  slaves,
foreigners, and people of other religious beliefs.

     2.  Jesus repudiated every premise of The Domination
System,  not  just the superficial manifestations of  It;
e.g.,   challenging the power of the wealthy and powerful
to dominate the weak and poor.

     3.  Jesus called for equity and distributive-justice
which undermines the foundations of class distinctions.

     4.  Jesus  repudiated  the use of violence  and  the
abuse of women and children who are vulnerable.

     5.  Jesus   repudiated  traditional  standards   for
purity  and  holiness  as  encoded in  written  laws  and
traditions.

     6.  Jesus challenged the rights of males to dominate
women and children in family life.

     7.  Jesus repudiated laws and commandments as  being
of  ultimate  importance,  and  subverted the profitable-
economies  of  the traditions of  blood-sacrifices  which
favored-the-wealthy.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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