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%USEFUL RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS DOCTRINE PROFITABLE SIN 041230
%CAPITALIST DOMINEERING LEADERS ETERNAL LIVE DEATHS 041230
%POOR THIRSTY VULNERABLE DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE DEVIL 041223
%REWARD PUNISH CONFORMITY LOYALTY COLLUSION HUMBLED 041223
  %FINAL SACRIFICE ORIGINAL SEXUAL KNOWLEDGE GUILTY 041223
%DEFERRED CAUSE EFFECT AFTER EARTHLY LIFE LOVER GOD 041223

     Many religious teachings/doctrines have been used and
abused by domineering people; e.g.:

     1.  The notion of rewards in heaven during an eternal
life-after-death  ---    has  been  implicitly   used   by
domineering  religious-leaders  to  get  vulnerable  poor-
people to wait until later  to enjoy distributive-justice;
letting domineering-religious-leaders have the benefits of
distributive  unjust  concentrations  of  wealth,   power,
goods, etc.; NOW.

     2.  The notion of "original-sin"  at birth associated
with  the  messiness  and "lack-of-control  within  sexual
relationships --- has been used effectively by domineering
religious-leaders to  get vulnerable/poor people to accept
and carry many and heavy burdens of blame, shame and guilt
---   when  leaders'   domination,   coercion,   violence,
arrogance, self-righteousness,  etc.  have lead all toward
personal/communal disintegrations.

     3.  The  notion that the gods/God require  sacrifices
to compensate for human imperfections ---  has  been  used
effectively  by domineering religious-leaders who claim to
be  "in-the-service"   of the gods/God that  require  such
sacrifices.

     4.  The notion that God is THE angry,  omnipotent and
eternal BEING in some mysterious and unverifiable location
--- has  been  used  effectively  by domineering religious
leaders:   to  intimidate and repress ---  poor/vulnerable
people into patterns of conformity, submission, sacrifice,
service   and  blind  loyalty  under  terms  dictated   by
domineering-religious-leaders    and thereby   effectively
concentrating:  power,  wealth,  influence,  works-of-art,
works-of-law, etc.  into the  hands  of  the self-serving-
domineering religious-leaders.

     5.  The  notion that all real power  is  mysteriously
concentrated  in  HEAVEN in the HANDS  of  a  MANIPULATIVE
Supreme Being whose essence is BEING-IN-CONTROL  ---   has
long  been  comforting to DOMINEERING people who yearn  to
become  BEINGS-IN-CONTROL  in keeping with the conceptions
of the nature of being right, righteous,  successful,  and
conformed  properly  to  the IDEAL-FORMS  created  by  the
SUPREME-CONTROLLER.  Their GOD is on their side in the war
between    True-Lovers   and   Disintegrative-Domineering-
Religious/Political Coalition-Builders.

     6.  The  notion that ABSOLUTE-TRUTH is  contained  in
ancient  scripts  and scriptures which can be  interpreted
righteously only by DOMINEERING-AUTHORITIES in ways  which
are independent of current-experiences of the majority  of
poor  and vulnerable people ---  does much  to  facilitate
most  wealth,   power,  influence,  and   technologies-of-
control ---  into  the well-rewarded hands of domineering-
religious leaders.

     7.  The  notion that the GUY with the most POWER is a
MALE  who is able to CONTROL-EVERYTHING-AT-WILL has served
males well in their efforts to be in  control  of  females
who tempt men to  lose-control  in   meaningful   intimate
relationships  with them --- has been a useful  notion  in
polarizing the world into classes/casts of HAVES and HAVE-
NOTS; MALES, and fe-MALES with the MALES having almost all
the formal power within most religious institutions.

     8.  The  notion that righteousness is to be  achieved
through  conformity  NOW  to  IDEAL-FORMS  ---   has  been
profitable  to   domineering-religious-leaders  who   have
appointed  themselves  as keepers-of the  IDEAL-FORMS  for
being  human,   intimate,   sexual,   in-control,   right,
righteous, saved, connected, together, redeemed,  holders-
of-tickets-into-heaven; LATER.

     9.  Domineering-religious-leaders have undermined the
authority of common-human-experiences --- so that they can
dominate  through the manipulation of ancient scripts  and
scriptures  which  are most reliable --- because they were
given by the IN-CONTROL-GOD before  HE  failed to keep HIS
creatures  in  PROPER-CONFORMITY  and  HIS  creatures  got
confused and unable to properly analyze their experiences.

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