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     There is a human tendency to personify some  abstract
concepts.    Often this is a destructive aspects  to  that
tendency.  When we personify "goodness" we tend to promote
the division  of people into two categories; those who are
"good"  and those who are not "good".   Those who are  the
personification  of "goodness"  are then regarded  as  the
source of "goodness"---and by logical  extension those who
are not the personification of "goodness" are at least not
helping to solve human problems.

     Once  we  have personified  "goodness",   it  becomes
almost  a  logical necessity to look for those people  who
are the personification of "evil".   When this happens the
presumed conflict between "good" and "evil" is personified
and entrenched in the social fabric.   The  people who see
themselves  as the personification of "goodness"  join  in
battle  against  the  people  whom  they  see  to  be  the
personification  of "evil".   Through their judgments such
"good"   people create barriers to  communication  between
themselves and those who they judge to be "evil".   Little
do  they  understand that the most evil act of all  is  to
arrogantly   presume   to   be  the   personification   of
"goodness".

     Those  who  see themselves as the personification  of
"goodness"   see  as good their efforts to get  others  to
conform  themselves  to  a standard  of  what  constitutes
"goodness".   They judge peer pressure towards  conformity
in terms  of  the kind of conformity which the violence is
intended  to  occasion,  rather than in terms of the  fact
that the peer pressure  does violence to and alienates the
people who are coerced towards conformity in ways contrary
to  the  unique  nature which  God provided  for  them  to
fulfill.  The self-righteous further tend to pass judgment
upon non-conformists because  they refuse  to  affirm good
definitions   of   what  constitutes   appropriate   human
behavior.   Thus  non-conformists  are classified as being
evil  people.   The significant differences  between  such
people  are  overlooked,   and they  are  treated  without
respect to their uniqueness.  Classifying people according
to what they presumable personify is hardly a loving  act.
It generates alienation, sin, rather than mutual awareness
and mutual understanding.

                                                                                                                               
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