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%FORBIDDEN SWEET FRUIT 840817
When certain fruit is reserved for the enjoyment of
some exclusive and privileged group---those who are
excluded tend to covet the forbidden fruit. If those who
enforce rules are not clearly dedicated to the
promotion of personal and communal integrity, then
those who are not permitted to enjoy the forbidden sweet
fruit---are likely to rebel in the name of justice.
Such rebellion is especially likely if the procedures
used to enforce the rules obviously undermine personal
and communal integrity in tragic ways. It is hard for
thinking people to respect rules which cannot be
enforced without undermining personal and communal
integrity.
Some people proclaim that the rules which they seek
to enforce are the embodiment of God's will for His
creatures. Such people claim to have the knowledge of
good and evil which was given to them directly by God.
Their confession is that they have eaten of the
forbidden tree in the midst of the Garden of Eden,
and that through the knowledge they gained thereby
--- they have become God's messengers regarding the
nature of good and evil as known by God. In their eating
of that forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of
good and evil, they have forgotten that God Herself
forbade them to eat of that tree, and forbade them to
know which people's misdeeds are adequate grounds for
damnation, alienation, estrangement, etc.
Taboos are rules which are usually unwritten, and
are enforced by undermining the personal and
communal integrity of individuals who violate the
rules. When taboos operate to forbid the enjoyment of
personal and communal integrity, the victims of such
taboos naturally rebel, because they yearn for personal
and communal integrity. They can not with integrity
respect the people who seek to enforce taboos which say
that only a privileged few who have earned the right---
may enjoy personal and communal integrity. It is
hard for thinking people to respect rules which can
not be enforce without undermining the personal and
communal integrity of the world. Such thinking people
come to respect God's first rule which says that the
knowledge of good and evil is the ultimately forbidden
fruit, for the sake of integrity.
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