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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9807101.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.} ========================================================== %BOUNDARY EXCLUSION INCLUSION SALVATION BETTER SIN 980710 For centuries "refined" religious leaders have excelled in drawing and fighting over boundaries of inclusion and/or exclusion. The fruits of the costly labors of refined religious leaders have usually been the fragmentation and disintegration of groups of people preoccupied with more and more "refined" definitions of who is "in" --- and who is "outside" of --- their most respected ranks and gatherings. Successive generations of refined religious leaders have had to work harder, and in terms of more refined collusive games of mutual self deception --- in order to gather around themselves enough followers to appear worthy of respect, honor and support. Often refined religious leaders have worked diligently on refining their opposing arguments in support of implicit assertions that inclusion/exclusion does and/or should depend upon: 1. Conforming to previously defined pre-scriptions regarding particular: assumptions, attitudes, perceptions, thoughts, experiences, desires, hopes, aspirations, rituals, . . . etc. 2. Refraining from being sympathetically associated with previously defined pro-scriptions regarding particular: assumptions, attitudes, perceptions, thoughts, experiences, desires, hopes, aspirations, rituals . . . etc. 3. Showing public respect and support for refined leaders' interpretation of ancient scriptures and texts. 4. The choices and behaviors of persons as individuals --- far more than upon the nature of the relationships between/among two or more persons who are conceived within and grow to be who they are --- within human relationships. Such refined religious leaders have rarely been dedicated to and effective in leading towards --- personal and communal integration and integrity. Far more often refined religious leaders have been dedicated to engaging in contentious battles over what separates them from each other---and so focus upon what leads towards personal and communal disintegration. They are tragic religious leaders whose leadership does not merit our respect or support. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================