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                            %GOD OF EXCOMMUNICATION 780621

     The God of Excommunication requires that his servants
excommunicate  people  who  do not conform  to  his  will.
People are to be affirmed only if they conform to the will
of the God of Excommunication.   Those who do not  conform
are to be cast into the outer darkness where there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.

     The  faithful servants of the God of  Excommunication
presume  to know and fulfill his will that  nonconformists
be excommunicated---lest they themselves be excommunicated
for not fulfilling the will of the God of Excommunication.
They  believe that the beginning of wisdom is the fear  of
the  God of Excommunication and of his servants---and  out
of   fear   they  take  the  necessary  steps   to   avoid
excommunication   themselves;   by  excommunicating  their
neighbors who:  are in prison for violating the laws which
require  conformity,   are hungry because they  refuse  to
produce enough consumer goods,  are "naked"  according  to
proper dress codes because they respect their bodies,  are
in  mental institutions because they behave  in  "strange"
ways,  are thirsty for forbidden affectional affirmations,
or  in  other  ways appear as strangers  who  disturb  the
conventional life-styles of powerful excommunicators.  For
such  faithful service the excommunicators expect that  at
the  Last  Judgment they will be rewarded by their God  of
Excommunication---for  their  faithfulness  to  behavioral
standards and their promotion of good kinds of conformity;
i.e., to high moral and ethical standards,  high standards
of  consumption and living,  proper doctrine and theology,
proper rituals, and the proper life styles.

     The  priests  of  the God of  Excommunication  remain
unaware  of  their  own  excommunication  from  those  who
perceive what is taking place.   Excommunicators have eyes
to see, but they do not see; ears to hear, but they do not
hear with understanding.   They have hearts to feel  with,
but they do not feel.   They conform themselves and others
into  impersonal molds which are unrelated  to  particular
human needs.   Their ultimate concern is to  excommunicate
any  non-repentant  nonconformist,   lest  the  disease of
nonconformity  spread and infect others too weak to resist
the  temptations presented by the specter  of  fulfillment
through   spontaneity.     The  priests  of  the  God   of
Excommunication  lock  themselves out of  the  kingdom  of
heaven  where  the  God of Love  by  sacrificial  examples
promotes  unconditional  openness to  others'   particular
needs.
                                                                                                                               
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