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%MANY DOMINANT RELIGIOUS LEADERS GOD UNILATERAL ACT 070106
%POWER CONCENTRATION TRANSCENDENT ETERNAL ADAPTABLE 070106
%ARBITRARY DOMINANT FORCE MYSTERIOUS MAGIC CONTROLS 070106
   %TRUSTED SCRIPTS SCRIPTURES DESTROY EVIL SPIRITS 070106
%ISOLATE INDIVIDUALS ALIENATED EXCOMMUNICATE SINNER 070106

     According to Many-Dominant-Religious-Leaders:

     1.  God-Acts-Unilaterally to Save-Us From-Ourselves.
     2.  God is Omniscient; i.e., All-Powerful.
     3.  God is Omnipresent; Present-Everywhere.
     4.  God is Eternal and Unchanging.
     5.  God is Transcendent; Beyond our Understanding.
     6.  God Destroys Evil-People and Evil-Things.
     7.  God Uses-Violence to overcome His-Enemies.
     8.  God Uses His-Preponderance-of-Power to Win.
     9.  God in the Long-Term will Win-Over-All-Evil.
    10.  God is on the side of Dominant-Religious-Leaders.

     The Vast-Majority of Religious-Scriptures support the
above views of Dominant-Religious-Leaders.

     While  there  are some  Contrary-Views-Give  in  some
Scripture-Passages, those Contrary-Views are found in Far-
Fewer-Passages  of  scriptures  than  those  Many-Passages
which support the above Ten-Contentions about God.

     The  above statements Have-Been-True-Of and Are-True-
Of   the  Vast-Majority  of  Religious-Traditions.     The
evidence is overwhelming!

     What are we going to do about the above facts?

     1.  Ignore the passages we do not like?
     2.  Focus only on the passages we do like.
     3.  Let the experts argue about the differences?
     4.  Inventory Our-Scriptures and Publish-Findings?
     5.  Repudiate Overall-Misleading-Passages?
     6.  Treat Scriptures as Historic-Documents?
     7.  Stop Worshipping all Scriptures?
     8.  Treat Scriptures as Stories-of-Domination?
     9.  Acknowledge How-Scriptures Are-Conflicted?
    10.  Transcend Conflicted-Ancient-Theologies?

     Be Graciously-Together in the Many-Ways-of-Shalom.

                         (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and  Healthy)

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