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%KINDS OF SIN 791013
Associated with each positive value which is affirmed
without qualification---there is a kind of sin. Sin is
the human condition of personal alienation. Alienation
originates in the unqualified affirmation of positive
values by people who are insensitive to the complementary
values which are compromised by their unqualified
affirmations of their most basic values. Ultimate concern
for certain values blinds people the importance of the
corresponding complementary values. Because people can
not serve competing complementary values as competing
Gods, they choose a self-consistent set of values to
idolize. By affirming self consistency as one of their
self-consistent set of ultimate values---they justify the
exclusion of inconsistent complementary values, and so
alienate those people who are incarnations of those
complementary values. In fact, the excommunication of
those complementary people is regarded as a valuable means
to the affirmation of both the values which are idolized,
and excommunication as an ultimate means. Thus, the
values which are idolized generate their kinds of sin in
the personal alienation between those persons who idolize
them and those persons who do not idolize them. Such
alienation can not be transcended in terms of the
competing complementary values. None of the persons who
idolize such alienative values can be the channel for the
power of Love to bring about reconciliation, for they are
the incarnation of the idolized values which occasion the
various kinds of sin. Only those people who are the
incarnation of Love can serve as the suffering servants
who promote reconciliation, rather than the idolization of
positive values. Such lovers are more concerned with
helping people transcend alienation---than with
perpetuating any self consistent set of values.
Reconciliation is blocked by people who regard sin as
nonconformity to approved life styles. Conformists do not
have the basis for promoting reconciliation, for they can
not be reconciled to nonconformists---and nonconformists
can not be reconciled to conformists because of
conformists' demands. Conformists who try to save
nonconformists from sin---alienate the nonconformists and
so occasion the kinds of sin from which the conformists
are trying to save the nonconformists. Conformists
include those people who are nonconformists for the
purpose of achieving acceptance and affirmation from like
nonconformists. They also promote their peculiar kinds of
sin.
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