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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9407231.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.} ========================================================== %FUNDAMENTALIST SCRIPTURE SOLE AUTHORITY SELECTIVE 940723 Fundamentalists of religious, political and other types use exclusivity in a number of ways in efforts to achieve control: 1. They limit authority to a set of scriptures and/or documents which they declare themselves to be the experts and/or authorities of, and about which they know more than their adversaries. Other sources of insight, knowledge, and understanding are severely discounted, if not totally excluded, from consideration. This enhances their sense of control over situations. 2. They limit consideration of their scriptures to passages, and interpretations of passages, which support their own desires and biases. They do not study the totality of their scriptures within any encompassing context or in the light of any broad range of experiences of differing peoples. This again enhances their sense of control over situations. 3. They play collusive games of mutual self- deception, by which they perceive reality in keeping with their exclusive set of beliefs and convictions; unable to expand their experiences and understanding to encompass the universe as the cosmic whole of reality which we can experience. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================