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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9607131.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.} ========================================================== %DIFFERENT PEOPLE RESPONSES COMMAND INJUNCTION LAW+960713 %CONTEXTS CIRCUMSTANCES HISTORY HEREDITY EXPERIENCE 960713 People are different from plants, animals and each other. No two people are completely identical in heredity and their history of experiences. Thus different people respond to situations differently in keeping with their essential differences. Some people believe that all people should respond to religious laws, commandments and injunctions in the same "proper" way. To "obey" is to respond in the same "proper" way. Their patterns of thought are based upon a paradigm of conformity to external demands, laws, commandments and injunctions. Their patterns of thought do not allow for individual personal differences to lead to different ways of responding to religious laws, commandments and injunctions. Does it make sense for religious leaders who profess to believe in a God who created all the diversity which exists among plants, animals and people---to claim that they (the religious leaders) speak on behalf of such a God in claiming that all different people must "obey" by conforming in the same way in response to religious laws, commandments and injunctions? Is obedience to be understood in terms of computer-like automata? Is there no legitimate possibility of creativity in responding to God's call? If one accepts the possibility of there being legitimate creativity in responding to God's call, what opportunity is left for religious manipulators to use "God's" laws, commandments, prohibitions and prescriptions as tools with which to control religious disciples? Who then will be in charge, in control? It is a terrible thought to suggest that each person might be in communion with God and respond creatively in response to God's personal call. Such a thought suggests the undermining of all the religious authority of leading religious leaders. It is an intolerable thought which must not be allowed to be expressed openly and honestly. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================