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     Exemplary  devils  are  given the  responsibility  to
demonstrate   that   ill  flows  from  the  violation   of
legalists' prescribed rules, and flows from the failure to
conform  to  standardized behavior patterns---even  though
natural law would not "cause"  such ill to flow.   To make
such  a  demonstration convincing nonconformists  must  be
made  to suffer greatly.     Thus their script calls for a
great  deal  of suffering.   The legalists who  write  the
script  are  not interested in responding to the  need  of
those who suffer, for they are interested in seeing people
suffer  in  order  to validate the hypothesis  that  their
legalistic  rules  are  necessary to protect  people  from
their particular deepest desires, instincts, feelings, and
emotions.  To legalists, suffering is an essential tool, a
means  to  the end of proving their rules  necessary.    A
world  devoid  of suffering would be a world that did  not
need  rules and was not generating any need for  rules---a
terrible condition for legalists to contemplate.

     For  the  legalists to be successful in  their  plan,
they must hide it from view through collusions into  which
they invite all persons,  including the "exemplary devils"
whom  they press into  their  service.    Such  "exemplary
devils"   are excommunicated for  failing  to  conform  to
legalists' rules---in keeping with the legalists'  script.
Their  excommunication  is part of the script and  further
helps   in  creating  the  setting  in  which   the   dire
consequences "flow" from  the  failure  of  the  people to
conform  to  the legalists'   rules.    In  this  way  the
"unnatural consequences" of the non-conformity are made to
appear  as if they were natural  consequences  over  which
nobody  had  any  choice.    The people who  suffer  those
consequences are said to be punished  by  God who ordained
that nonconformists  suffer  dire consequences for failing
to  conform  themselves  to the legalists'   rules.    The
legalists thus cast God in the role  of being their God of
Excommunication---in  order that their hypothesis (that we
cannot  trust ourselves or other persons)  might be proved
valid.    They  cast themselves as  the  faithful  (loyal)
servants  of  their God of Excommunication,  and play  the
role very profitably as God's self righteous servants.

                                                                                                                               
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