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Summary

The article reminds leaders that despite their luxurious lives, they are not exempt from mortality and should not exploit their followers' hardships for personal gain.

Abstract

The article titled "A Reminder For All Leaders Kings Generals and Clergy" emphasizes that living in luxury does not make one immune to death. It criticizes leaders who enjoy comfort while their followers suffer, suggesting that such leaders manipulate their followers by promising salvation through symbols, words, or swords. The text argues that this manipulation involves ignoring the present for a promised better future, which is a disservice to the followers who are encouraged to forget the natural rule of self-reliance. The article concludes by reminding leaders that they too are subject to death and will eventually be buried, urging them to guide with empathy and compassion rather than misleading for personal gain.

Opinions

  • Leaders who live in luxury should not forget their own mortality and the suffering of their followers.
  • Manipulating followers by promising salvation through abstract concepts or violence is a form of theft of their present lives.
  • True salvation comes from personal effort, as seen in nature with animals working to survive.
  • Leaders should not use fear of suffering and death to control followers, as they themselves will face the same fate.
  • The article expresses that leaders have a responsibility to guide with empathy and compassion, rather than misleading those who look up to them.

A Reminder For All Leaders Kings Generals and Clergy

Living in luxury does not exempt you from the grave

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You live in comfort while those you inspire to follow you with the signs you make, have deprived lives.

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They forget their village, family, even themselves. You make them believe your symbol, word, or sword will bring them salvation from Misery you steal their today by showing them their misery of the past and a dream of the rosy future.

They forget their village, family, even themselves. You make them believe your symbol, word, or sword will bring them salvation from Misery you steal their today by showing them their misery of the past and a dream of the rosy future.

You make them look away from the rule of nature, every creature must find salvation by its own effort. Birds fly to find food, make nests to live and raise their own. Ants toil to live. No God feeds you without your Effort for praising a symbol or killing for it. Even Moses led people to the river Jordan, and not to the Mount. Sermons should guide not mislead as Salvation is in the effort with empathy and compassion, is what you make them forget.

You tell them they will suffer and die for sins. Remember you also will lay buried. under sand or marble someday. You are not beyond the ground.

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Thank you, dear reader, for reading, and thanks to Denise Larkin for bringing it to you.

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