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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9605191.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.} ========================================================== %MANIPULATIVE DISINTEGRATIVE DOCTRINE BELIEF DOGMA 960519 Down through history powerful religious leaders have often promoted doctrines, beliefs and dogmas which gave to them additional advantages and power. The doctrine of the "divine-right-of-kings" was not devised to promote the advantages of democracy for the common folk, but to strengthen the power of kings to take advantage of the common folk. The doctrines pertaining to the advantages of sacrificing self "here-in" this life in order to gain advantages in the "here-after" were not devised due to overwhelming evidence that those who have made great sacrifices "here-in" this life actually have gained great advantages in the "here-after". Instead, such doctrines have been promoted in the face of clear "here-in" evidence that those who have promoted those doctrines have gained great advantages "here-in" this life. The doctrines of "original-sin" which tie people to the past and make them dependent upon those powerful religious leaders who presume to have the power "fix" them and so to relieve them of the consequences of "original- sin"---are doctrines which have clearly brought advantages to those powerful religious leaders who have promoted such doctrines. The doctrine of "predestination" has been used by powerful religious leaders to manipulate powerless people into accepting their lack of power "here-in" this life and so has simplified the tasks of the powerful people to govern the lives of the powerless. Each religious doctrine needs to be examined by the common people to see to whom the doctrine brings advantages. Integrative people who merit respect do not promote religious doctrines which transfer great amounts of power from the powerless to the powerful. Such transfers of power do not promote personal or communal integrity, and so do not merit respect or support. People who promote doctrines which promote such transfers of power do not merit respect or support. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================