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%SIN OF UNBALANCING DIALOGUE 800216
Sin is the condition of alienation, of not being in
dialogue. Dialogue is often blocked by violence:
physical, economic, political, religious, educational,
medical, psychological, etc. Such violence tends to
inhibit dialogue between the victims and the violent ones.
Often the explicit purpose of the violence is to occasion
alienation, the condition of sin, as in the case of
religious groups that excommunicate, shun, ostracize,
ignore, and in other ways cut off from fellowship those
members of their group who do not conform perfectly
enough. Their violence is not made less sinful because it
is motivated by a sincere effort to eliminate sin. The
misguided efforts tend to inhibit dialogue, occasion sin.
The above behaviors which occasion sin are relatively
obvious compared to other ways in which dialogue is thrown
out of balance, and so sin occasioned. In a broad sense
sin is the condition of being in unbalanced dialogue; not
being in dialogue is just one way of being in unbalanced
dialogue. The person who through alienation comes to be
in dialogue only in perverted ways, with perverted people,
or with perverted language---is in a state of sin, of
alienation. the person may have made free choices all the
way into the condition of sin, and felt that choice each
was wise and proper; and still end up sinful. There may
have been no obvious violence; though there may have been
seduction, bribery, and dishonesty.
Any process which leads people to experience
unbalance with respect to mode, content, language, focus,
context, listening, broadcasting, and other aspects of
dialogue is a sinful process. Many processes of
specialization are sinful because they throw people into
unbalanced life-styles which involve serious imbalance
regarding dialogue. Usually such specialists can be
manipulated by promoting guilt and taking advantage of
guilt feelings. Unbalanced persons tend to lack the
maturity needed to cope with manipulators. In their
specialized contexts they are not likely to be guaranteed
freedom from guilt as a right, and guilt is not likely to
be regarded as a disease. Rather it is likely to be
regarded as a stigma marking those who should be further
punished, alienated, cast out, made to be sinners. They
are likely to be cut off from dialogue. All persons
involved tend to become alienated.
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