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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9012071.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %ADDICTIVE RELIGIOUS LEADER CONCEPT GOD HEAVEN LOVE 901207 Addictive religious leaders are bound by their paradigm, concepts, beliefs, attitudes and assumptions to conceive God, heaven and love---in addictive terms; e.g., in terms of control, perfection, eternity, manipulative rationality, linearity and other preoccupations of addicts. Addictive religious leaders often are not involved in recognized overt addictive behaviors; instead they are addicted to religious modes of expression of their addictive ways. Their religious expression of their addictive ways can be just as destructive as more commonly recognized expressions of addictive ways of thinking, feeling, perceiving, and trying. The idealized visions of heaven, God and love which are conceived by addictive personalities are projections of their confusions about the essence of the ultimately desirable aspects of real living---onto the screen of the ultimate mysteries of life. The projections are human creations which are not worthy of worship; they are not ultimate realities. The projections are representations of misled human conceptions, not healthy conceptions. They are not God and it is disintegrative to worship them. We need to know how to recognize the religious projections of addictive personalities, so we may avoid idolizing such creations, and so avoid the tragedies of human idolatry. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================