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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9603163.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.} ========================================================== %NOT OK RELIGIOUS LEADER TRANSACTION ANALYSIS SIN 960316 Many religious leaders have gained power to control those people who have trusted them and followed them. Such power is gained by promoting religious doctrines which say that people are NOT OK; saying that people are spoiled by original sin over which they have no control and need a FIX. If the followers are NOT OK---and the religious leaders are custodians of religious FIXES which the NOT OK people are told that they need, then the religious leaders have the power to manipulate and control those who trust them. Many religious leaders have encouraged their followers to be addicted to their religious FIXES; for such addictions seems to empower the religious leaders. Since religious leaders are dealing with matters of ULTIMATE CONCERN and with visions of ETERNAL LIFE in states of DAMNATION or SALVATION; they are in positions to wield UNLIMITED POWER. Power corrupts, and unbalanced power corrupts absolutely. Religious leaders who exercise far more power than those who trust them---are ultimately tempted to be arrogant and to abuse their unbalanced power. They are tempted and yield to the temptation to exercise unbalanced power in personal relationships of unbalanced power and vulnerability. They have taken advantage of people who have been economically vulnerable, theologically vulnerable, psychologically vulnerable, mentally vulnerable, and sexually vulnerable. Religious leaders who are preoccupied with doctrines which teach people that they are NOT OK and so need of a religious FIX---rarely find it possible to believe that they themselves who have great power are NOT BETTER than others who are really NOT OK. There must be gradations in being NOT OK, and those religious leaders who have the greatest knowledge and power must be among are the BEST, BETTER than all those people who best exemplify being NOT OK. Thus many religious leaders have become addicted to the exercise of religious power to manipulate people who have been imbued with the conviction that they are really NOT OK. By exercising their power in addictive ways they encourage others to be addicted to the RELIGIOUS FIXES which they sell for a price; much to their own advantage. Human transactions can be analyzed in terms of many forms of transactional analysis; e.g., as by Thomas A. Harris in his book "I'm OK---You're OK". Such an analysis seeks to re-establish some balance as regards the exercise of power in inter-personal relationships. If the conviction that people are in some essential way NOT OK is central to the life of any family, community, school, church, religion or community---that conviction is bound to poison the relationships between people who share and/or tolerate that conviction. It is important to find some way to promote and respect true humility in open and honest relationships wherein people share their own experiences openly and honestly. It is dis-integrative of personal and communal integrity to manipulate each other in authoritative transactions based upon abstractions which are not grounded in the open and honest articulation of the personal experiences of whoever is offering the articulation. Religious theories and doctrines which are not grounded in and revealing of people's own personal experiences openly and honestly shared---are religious theories and doctrines which are almost sure to be used and abused by addictive, manipulative and collusive religious leaders who know not the harm which the inflict upon the least of their followers---of whom they expect and demand much. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================