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%CONFESSIONS 770305
Confessions are testimonials of lessons learned
through personal experiences---often because of mistakes
or blunders. Because confessions are first-hand accounts,
they are more convincing than are generalizations and
abstractions. Confessions are more convincing because they
are richer in humane details --- than are moral lessons
which tend to inhibit the confessions which might better
inform people about real living.
Confessions offered primarily to justify a moral
lesson or a legalistic system --- are misleading
confessions. Such confessions tend to lead hearers to
attend to a moralistic or legalistic system with ultimate
concern. Such confessions are often devoid of the humane
details which make true confessions enlightening and
convincing in creative/helpful ways. Moralizing
confessions tend to serve the purpose of bolstering the
power of judgmental people; thereby promoting alienation--
-and so promoting further mistakes to be made and
confessed in a moralizing way, etc. For this reason it is
dangerous to confess mistakes in a legalistic/moralistic
environment. To do so usually involves accepting
judgments and guilt as made by the self-righteous keepers
of the moral code---and all that such acceptance of
judgment and guilt entails.
For the above reasons it is better to confess
mistakes and intimate lessons learned in small private
gatherings of a few close friends, rather than in public
places where the confessions will empower the scribes and
pharisees to maintain their coercive traditions.
Confessions are best shared with those few who live by
faith in love, rather than with those many who justify
themselves by their own laws. Confessions shared in a
spirit of love edify the small community in a way which is
not possible to those who seek to regulate behavior
through legalism. In this way legalists cut themselves
off from the renewing power of loving communities---and so
live and die in hell, alone with each other in crowded
ways. It is they who are alone in the crowded ways of
their lives.
Legalists fear to have anything to confess---and so
seek to avoid temptations in intimate situations which
might prompt them to transcend required conformal
behavior. Their fear of unique personal involvement thus
augments their mutual alienation and increased dependence
upon systematic behavior patterns and techniques for
defining and solving human problems/dilemmas in objective
ways which inhibit confessions.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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