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%NON-CONFORMITY SIN REALITY DIFFERENCE 810816
There is risk when we confuse the differences between
two realities. If firemen treat gasoline as if it were
water, and pour it on a fire in an effort to put out the
fire---they only make their problem worse. If political
leaders see no difference between casual desires and real
need---they lead people in inflationary ways, ignoring
the differences between making unrealistic promises and
actually setting realistic priorities regarding scarce
resources.
Legalistic moral people tend to compound the problems
of human misunderstanding and alienation---when they fail
to see the differences between non-conformity and sin.
Many people of the 1980's "moral majority" can not see the
difference between sin, and non-conformity to their
provincial moral code of proper behavior. They regard
non-conformists as sinners, and conformists as non-
sinners; where conformity pertains to the particular
provincial moral code of their own sub-culture. They fail
to see the central role which is played by alienation in
all problems; and that it is very helpful to problem
solving to see the breaking down of humane dialogue as the
essence of evil and sin, rather than to see non-conformity
as the essence of evil and sin.
Non-conformists are "sinners" only to the extent that
"different" people fail to be in humane dialogue with
them. So also, conformists are sinners only to the extent
that they fail to be in dialogue with each other and
different people. It is exceedingly important to
recognize that there is a fundamental difference between
people being "non-conformists" and their being "sinners".
The power to make that difference, to create "deviance",
rests in the hands of the most powerful people---who often
tend to be conformists who are sinners; and proud of the
alienation which they engender.
The non-conformists who seek to overcome alienation
can not always overcome the alienation generated by the
conformists---not even by themselves becoming conformists
to some particular provincial moral code of ethical
behavior, in response to threats of alienation as a means
of punishing deviant behavior.
Those who self-righteously label others as "sinners"
are the real sinners, the promoters of: alienation,
estrangement, misunderstanding, communication blockage,
collusions, evil and sin. Non-conformity is not sin.
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