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There have been some religious-leaders who have acted as if they knew some Absolute-Truth
about: God, Heaven, Hell, Salvation, Redemption or some other Absolute-Reality.

At least some of those religious leaders have been so arrogant as to merit LITTLE OR NO: 
honor, respect, support or reverence - - - in regard to their knowledge of any Religious-
Truth - - - which cannot be tested in any reliable ways in terms of human experiences.

The human dilemma is that there have been many such religious-leaders who have attracted
a large following of people who do not want to be troubled with verifiable facts and
with thinking about the implication of those facts.

Religions have often failed to generate a good track record in MITIGATING the following 
Alienative-Human-Realities among their MOST: Honored, Trusted, Powerful, Influential 
and Wealthy LEADERS within each religion. 			

Arrogance	Self-Righteousness	Alienative-Conflicts	Getting-Influence	Exclusivity

Coercion	Pretentions		Excommunications	Egocentrism 		Shunnings

Getting-Power	Getting-Attention	Getting-Wealth		Geo-Centrism		Purifications

Religions have often limited the concerns of believers to THE-INSIDE-OF God's Space-Ship-Earth which is
Astronomically-Tiny within the  Whole of THE-COSMOS of Space-and-Time wherein Space-Ship-Earth
is not even a speck of dust; unable to survive even a tiny-fever of Local-Average-Star/Sun.

Religions have often so limited-the-concerns-of-believers - - - that they have not been able to 
recognize Global-Catastrophes which are INEVITABLE in the Long-Term PRESENCE of:

 1. Exponential Growth-Rates in Human Populations within Astronomically-Tiny-Space-Ship-Earth.
 2. Exponential Growth-Rates in Per-Capita-Per-Year Personal-Energy-Demands in Space-Ship-Earth
 3. Exponential Growth-Rates in Per-Capita-Per-Year Personal-Pure-Material-Resource-Demands-in-Earth.
 4. Trying to WIN Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception about these PRESENCES-in-Space-Ship-Earth.
 5. GREED as a pervasive/central Motivating-and-Guiding-Reality.
 6. FEAR  as a pervasive/central Motivating-and-Guiding-Reality.
 7. ANXIETY  a pervasive/central Motivating-and-Guiding-Reality.
 8. The lack of the Integration of: Objective, Reflexive, Spiritual, Scientific and Sexual - - REALITIES.
 9. Indifference to the unmet most-basic-needs of the: Poorest, Hungry and Most-Vulnerable crew-members.
10. Indifference to the human costs of Isolated-and-Incoherent: Ideals, Values, Principles and Virtues.