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%SIN AS RELATIONSHIP EVIL DEEDS NEGLECT DISOBEY+790816
%DISCIPLINE FAILURE COLLUSION DISHONESTY 790816
We are set free from sin when we perceive sin as
alienative relationships. Sin is a mutual relationship of
alienation, not a deed for which one party is responsible.
People do not commit sins against each other---one the
sinner and the other the innocent victim of the sin.
People are together in sin as relationship. People are
sinful when they seek to pin the blame for sin on anybody,
even if they seek to pin the blame on themselves. The
question is not, "Who is to blame?", but "How can dialogue
be promoted?" To seek the answer to the first question is
to inhibit dialogue. It is evil to inhibit dialogue. It
is love to promote dialogue. Sin is inhibited dialogue.
Evil is that which inhibits dialogue.
Collusions are sinful, full of sin as relationships
of alienation from honest coping cooperatively with
persons and reality. Conventions and traditions which are
based upon dishonesty are sinful---because they involve
alienation from reality, failing to relate openly to
reality with others. Injustice occasions relations of
alienation through dishonesty (pretending the injustice
does not exist) and violence (lack of mutuality in
allocating resources). Thus injustice promotes sin as
relationships of alienation. Authoritarian education
promotes sin as alienative relationships between
administrators, teachers, and students which are based
upon power and authority---rather than upon mutual respect
which originates through Love in the heart. The
technocratic societies are sinful because they seek to
compensate for alienation through the study,
understanding, and manipulation of physical objective
relationships and resources---rather than seek
reconciliation by focusing attention upon whatever blocks
listening, dialogue, and mutuality in personal
relationships and understanding. What is sinful is the
alienation, not the violation of technocratic rules,
disobedience, or lack of discipline. Rules, regulation,
laws, policies, and discipline may themselves be sinful
when they promote alienation---in which case honoring them
is sinful, for to honor them is to promote alienation.
To understand sin we must focus upon the extent to
which people relate to each other openly and honestly
regarding their: desires, fears, hopes, aspirations,
regrets, guilt, ideas, perceptions, feelings, opinions,
failures, expectations, visions, etc.
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