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%RELIGIOUS COLLUSION SUPPORT CONSCIENCE PRAYER+790805
%HYMNS SERMONS SUNDAY SCHOOL WORSHIP+790805
%RITUAL TRADITIONS 790805
Collusions are supported in many respectable ways.
Their games of mutual self deception are woven into the
fabric of life---for their "truths" are of ultimate
concern to the participants in the collusions. Thus all
possible means are brought to bear upon sustaining
collusions. Religious institutions have and support
collusions.
The collusive society weaves the essence of its
collusions into the conscience of the young. The basic
presuppositions of its collusions are cross woven into the
prayers and hymns of churches. Sermons and Sunday School
lessons re-enforce the perspectives which are supportive
of religious collusions. The rituals of worship involve
the thoughtless recitation of collusive formulas of
response. Calls for repentance are often calls to those
who are on the verge of escaping from religious
collusions, calls to return to enthusiastic support of
collusions---else face excommunication. Religious
revivals often involve the re-enforcement of the
religious sub-culture's collusions---and the socialization
of converts into the sub-culture's collusions.
Collusions are prevalent because they are "effective"
coping mechanisms. Through collusions a sub-culture
develops consensual ways of coping and agreement about how
effective the results of the coping is. Values are chosen
which affirm the goodness of the collusive "truths". The
values, truths, techniques, traditions, philosophy,
theology, institutions, and biases of a collusion "hang
together". They have an appearance of integrity which is
real to collusion participants. The participants are
successful by the criteria of the collusion.
By what criteria may participants in a collusion come
to recognize that they are participants in a collusion?
In self-defense collusions inhibit participants' freedoms
of communication. Participants are not fully free to
express their perceptions, visions, emotions, opinions,
desires, doubts, fears, etc. Participants are not fully
free to be in dialogue with those who are critical of the
sub-culture which embodies the collusion. Those who
insist upon exercising their freedoms of communication are
excommunicated by participants in a collusion---for
through uninhibited communication the games of mutual self
deception will be illumined and so exposed to view.
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