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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9102251.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.} ========================================================== %CONTROL SALVATION ULTIMATE DESTINY FIX REDEMPTION 910225 At various time and places in various ways people have believed that people can be in control of each other's ultimate destiny, salvation, redemption, being o.k., and/or integrity. In medieval times certain authorities in the church were presumed to have the power, authority, and means to exercise control over the ultimate condition of people's souls. In modern times corresponding power is assumed to reside in the hands of medical doctors, men who control weapons of mass destruction, political leaders, etc. Some modern people have surrendered themselves to the leadership of modern religious leaders whose motivations may reasonably be questions by healthy people not under the control of such religious leaders. Some modern people presumed that in some magical way modern scientists will be able to fix things so that everything will be ultimately o.k. in ways that they have never been o.k. before. In each such instance people have been willing to assume that in some profound way other persons could be in control of their ultimate destiny, salvation, redemption, being o.k., integrity, etc. It is taken for granted that there is something ultimately defective about a person which must be fixed, compensated for, paid for, or in some way improved upon before the condition of being ultimately o.k. or perfect can exist. If the traditional assumption were not made, then many people would lose their power to control, and would be disappointed; while those who have been controlled under the traditional assumption might find that they had been set free, and were favored by their creator just as they are. The politics of the manipulation of the power of salvation depends profoundly upon what assumption is made about the nature of the creator and ground of being, and upon whether or not the power to control people's salvation is granted to creatures of any kind by the creator of all beings. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================