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%VALUES' ORIGIN PEACE CONFLICT RESOLUTION+800927
%ULTIMATE CONCERN EXCLUSIVE GOOD EVIL 800927
If only all positive values originate in God (the
name of any supremely coherent source of all positive
values) then other values originate in a source which is
in conflict with God. Thus, any value which is in
conflict with a positive value must originate in the
Devil. The primary assumption sets the stage for a
history of conflict between values, and between the people
who embody such values. Goodness, and so personal
acceptability, becomes identified with service of the
correct set of values. Evil, and so personal
excommunication, becomes identified with service of the
incorrect set of values. The stage is set for alienation
between the good people and the evil people. They are
blinded to the shallowness of the stage on which they
play, originating in the shallowness of the primary
assumption which set the stage.
We cannot serve exclusive values and Love at the same
time. Values which can be affirmed only be disaffirmation
of other values are exclusive values which occasion
alienation, rather than love. The work of Love is not the
disaffirmation of any values. The work of Love is the
transcendence of alienation, and so the transcendence of
exclusive values, and so the transcendence of the
assumption that all positive values originate in God. Love
does not call us to affirm in an exclusive way any
superior set of values. Love calls us to transcend
alienation and alienative values.
Human reconciliation does not flow from ultimate
dedication to a superior set of values. Mutual
understanding does not originate in the achievement of
superior knowledge and skills. Dialogue is not promoted
by conformity to any superior behavior pattern. Those
people who know that they are in some way superior to
others tend to occasion alienation, not reconciliation.
Conflict resolution cannot be based upon a superior
set of values. Peacemakers are not in the service of a
superior set of values. Peace comes to those who are
dedicated to the promotion of mutual dialogue, rather than
to those who seek to affirm the ultimate importance of any
set of values.
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