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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9305051.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.} ========================================================== %GIFT SECURITY FREE SAFE VULNERABLE LEADER HONEST 930505 In the absence of familiarity with healthy religious communities which give the gift of true security as the freedom to be safely vulnerable, often religious cult leaders evolve who give to people what they need but do not get in traditional churches; a deep and satisfying sense of personal belonging in a special and secure way to a community of people who are open and honest with each other. Such religious cult leaders fill a deeply felt need and create around them communities of followers filling each other's unmet need for the gift of true security known as the freedom to be safely vulnerable in each other's presence. Religious cult leaders evolve because there are many people who are not familiar with healthy religious communities which give the gift of true security known as the freedom to be safely vulnerable. Religious cult leaders would have no significant followings if the majority of religious communities gave the gift of true security known as the freedom to be safely vulnerable. Too often religious communities offer threatening messages of conditional acceptance which must be earned through some particular form of conformity to prohibitions, injunctions, taboos, rituals, recitation of doctrines, agreement with statements of belief, etc. The messages are not messages of liberation. The messages are not ones which offer true security in a community of integrative people. Too often the message is that acceptance may possibly come later, but only if conditions are met; and that acceptance will most likely be withdrawn if conditions are not constantly met. Most people recognize that such conditions are disintegrative of people and communities; and so many people look for religious leaders who appear to be leading a more healthy religious community which is more accepting, and within which each member has a real sense of being special. Religious cult leaders too often lead their followers to perceive themselves as being special in ways which involve alienation between the followers and the rest of the surrounding society. In such a cult religious community being special does not involve working for the integrity of the religious community and also for its integration into the surrounding society as a witness to the surrounding society. Being special does not involve personal integrity in freedom and encouragement to be in uninhibited dialogue with the members of the surrounding society. Being special comes increasingly to mean conforming to special conditions and being separated from and alienated from those who are not special. The sense of security in belonging to the special community is achieved at the expense of alienation from the rest of the wider community. Such alienative relationships lead to personal and communal disintegration, and are the heart of evil realities. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================