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This is http://www.essayz.com/b0308091.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.} ========================================================== %PROPER BOUNDS RELIGIOUS AFFIRMATIONS ABSTRACT GOOD 030809 %REAL HUMANE EXPERIENCES RELATIONSHIPS NEIGHBORS 030809 %GOD HEAVEN WITHIN LITERAL TIME SPACE CONTINUUM 030809 %NATURAL CONSEQUENCES DESCRIPTIONS STATIC UNCHANGED 030809 %PRESCRIPTIONS PROSCRIPTIONS COMMANDMENTS LAWS GODS 030809 %ORDERS CHAOS NONCONFORMITY DISOBEDIENCE DISLOYALTY 030809 What are the proper bounds of religious affirmations? Different religious leaders will of course, give different answers to such a question. So long as the discussion is purely abstract/academic --- few serious difficulties flow from different responses to such a question. However, if the discussion is one which involves powerful and domineering people --- many serious consequences may flow from different and often contentious responses to such a question. The responses may include responses of the following mixed kinds: 1. Explicit descriptions of where God and His Heaven exist; e.g., above the sky. 2. Explicit descriptions of the nature of God known with absolute certainty; e.g., eternal, unchanging, omniscient, omnipotent, holy, . . . 3. Prescriptions of what different roles men, women and children should play on the stage of life; e.g., men dominant, and women and children obedient. 4. Prohibitions which describe what actions are forbidden for men, women and children; e.g., questioning the relevance or literal accuracy of holy scriptures. 5. Doctrinal statements prescribing what men, women and children should believe, confess, affirm, and revere; e.g., what holy scriptures say is the unchanging nature of things and of God. 6. Descriptions of rituals which mean, women and children should perform; when, where, how, how frequently, etc. 7. Descriptions indicating how the world came into being and how it will cease to exist. 8. Descriptions of how all kinds of living beings, including humans, came into being; and how they will cease to exist. 9. Statements about the meaning of existence, life, suffering, diseases, pleasures, pains, death, etc. 10. Statements about why salvation is necessary, how it may be achieved and/or how it may be enjoyed. 11. Statements about why salvation is NOT necessary, why it cannot be achieved and/or when it cannot be enjoyed. 12. Statements about the natures of heaven, purgatory, hell, reincarnation, etc. 13. Statements about who may, and may not, exercise religious power in religious leadership positions within religious institutions --- and why. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================