Analysis Article Without A Doubt By Ron Suskind

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...in every religion but he also points to the de-idealizing tendencies found in some religions. One rather pointed example was the saying, "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him" (Jones, 2002). Another example Jones (2002) comes from the /Tao Te Ching "The Tao that can be named is not the eternal Tao." Winnicott suggested these de-idealizing tendencies encourage persons to surrender their false self and also to "surrender omnipotent control over the religious object" (Jones, 2002). Winnicott says this is a market of maturity (Jones, 2002).
Jones expands this discussion through the examples of cult leaders and omnipotent control and then cites Ghent who suggests that "when religious fundamentalists claim to know god or know the truth with certainty, and experience no dialectic between faith and doubt . . . we might understand them as keeping their religious object in the realm of...

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