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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9712192.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.} ========================================================== %DOCTRINE ORIGINAL SIN FALL GRACE ADAM EVE GARDEN+971219 %MANIPULATIVE CONTROLLERS ADDICTIVE RELIGIOUS LEAD 971219 Manipulative religious leaders who are preoccupied with issues of control find ways to use the doctrine of original sin. They may argue that because people are tainted with the failures of Adam and Eve, people are inherently imperfect, unreliable and untrustworthy --- not eligible to have much self-esteem. People need properly chosen, trained and reliable leaders to compensate for their inherent imperfections, lack of reliability and untruth-fulness. Self-confident religious leaders elect themselves to fulfill the responsibilities and exercise the powers which most people do not want and cannot properly be trusted with. It is a good first step to undermine people's sense of self-respect and self-confidence by teaching the doctrine of original sin in appropriate ways. Once that first step is successfully taken, people are much easier to lead and dominate; much easier to control. People who have high levels of self-esteem and self-confidence are not easy to lead and dominate; they do not yield to religious disciplines and controls at all well. They are prone to disobedience, insubordination and rebellion. It is good to meditate upon the doctrine of original sin and to discern how it may be used in facilitating the governance of the disciples through proper teaching by the reliable authorities. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================