06-30-2010, 11:33 AM
When The Organization IS The Mediator- Things Get Screwed Up.
http://web.archive.org/web/1999110308510...rgmed.html
The following is based on the Book WHEN GOD BECOMES A DRUG BY Leo Booth Page# 31
"Power groups can manipulate scriptures to create doctrines and dogma designed to keep people in submission, fearful of error. They make up the rules and say the rules are God's,so that questioning the teachers or teachings equals questioning God.
"Promising heavenly(Or in our case,earthly paradise) reward as compensation for deprivation in this life,conditions people to escape into magical thinking and denial of reality. Teaching that acceptance of God Jehovah or Christ(or the elder) (The WT society's "suggestions"=rules) is the way to absolve sins leads to rationalization and the inability to take responsibility for one's own actions. Meaning: We are bad,and God will magically fix us IF we do what someone or some religious organization tells us is God's wish".
Jesus Christ,the Son and our mediator is suppose to be THEE ONLY mediator between Jehovah God and humankind- Timothy 2:5. However,in dysfunctional and controlling cult-like religious organizations,the religious organization and it's leaders BECOME the mediator and thus replacing Jesus Christ. Thus,like the religious leaders of Christ's day,they burden the people with their religious sounding and NON-Biblically backed rules,being the direct opposite of Christ's definition of his yoke or load which he describes as being,"LIGHT and NON-burdensome"-Matthew 11:29,30.
(PG#39) "Because most religious addicts believe themselves inherently worthless and powerless,they look outside themselves for some religious authority(WT Society) who functions as a go-between,an intermediary who tells them what God is like and what God wants them to do. Thus religious addicts never experience God first hand,never truly get to know God. If what they are told about God is dysfunctional,then their relationship with God becomes dysfunctional.
Religious addicts feel judged by God-so they learn to judge. They feel that God sees them as dirty and sinful-so they make others feel dirty and sinful. In religious addiction,denial runs rampant. After all,the whole purpose of an addiction is to escape reality. Religious addiction springs from a reservoir of low self-esteem, a sense of inadequacy,shame,guilt,and the desire to escape,fix or numb these feelings".
Warm Christian Love
Bangalore
http://web.archive.org/web/1999110308510...rgmed.html
The following is based on the Book WHEN GOD BECOMES A DRUG BY Leo Booth Page# 31
"Power groups can manipulate scriptures to create doctrines and dogma designed to keep people in submission, fearful of error. They make up the rules and say the rules are God's,so that questioning the teachers or teachings equals questioning God.
"Promising heavenly(Or in our case,earthly paradise) reward as compensation for deprivation in this life,conditions people to escape into magical thinking and denial of reality. Teaching that acceptance of God Jehovah or Christ(or the elder) (The WT society's "suggestions"=rules) is the way to absolve sins leads to rationalization and the inability to take responsibility for one's own actions. Meaning: We are bad,and God will magically fix us IF we do what someone or some religious organization tells us is God's wish".
Jesus Christ,the Son and our mediator is suppose to be THEE ONLY mediator between Jehovah God and humankind- Timothy 2:5. However,in dysfunctional and controlling cult-like religious organizations,the religious organization and it's leaders BECOME the mediator and thus replacing Jesus Christ. Thus,like the religious leaders of Christ's day,they burden the people with their religious sounding and NON-Biblically backed rules,being the direct opposite of Christ's definition of his yoke or load which he describes as being,"LIGHT and NON-burdensome"-Matthew 11:29,30.
(PG#39) "Because most religious addicts believe themselves inherently worthless and powerless,they look outside themselves for some religious authority(WT Society) who functions as a go-between,an intermediary who tells them what God is like and what God wants them to do. Thus religious addicts never experience God first hand,never truly get to know God. If what they are told about God is dysfunctional,then their relationship with God becomes dysfunctional.
Religious addicts feel judged by God-so they learn to judge. They feel that God sees them as dirty and sinful-so they make others feel dirty and sinful. In religious addiction,denial runs rampant. After all,the whole purpose of an addiction is to escape reality. Religious addiction springs from a reservoir of low self-esteem, a sense of inadequacy,shame,guilt,and the desire to escape,fix or numb these feelings".
Warm Christian Love
Bangalore
