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%COMMUNAL REJECTION 850726
It is discomforting to be personally rejected by
casual acquaintances. Personal rejection is such a threat
to personal self-esteem and integrity that even rejection
by a casual acquaintance is discomforting.
It is somewhat painful to be personally rejected by
someone whom you were moderately inclined to regard as a
friend, for rejection by someone with whom one shares
common experiences, perspectives, ideals and values
threatens one's own sense of wholeness.
It is really threatening and painful to be personally
rejected by one of your closest friends with whom one has
become personally identified and shared much in common.
Such a rejection tears at the fabric of one's own sense of
personal integrity, one's sense of who one is. Such a
rejection calls into question one's continuing sense of
what one stands for. It is hard to continue to have a
sense of personal security under the shadow of rejection
by one close friend.
What if you are personally rejected by all your
closest friends, moderate friends,, and casual
acquaintances? Suppose that they as a matter of high
principle feel that they are duty bound to personally
reject you. How then are you to maintain your self esteem
and personal integrity? How then can you be sure of what
you stand for?
What is one to do if all members of one's own
community feel duty bound to threaten to personally reject
you if you are true to your deepest sense of what is true,
fair, just, and right? How is one to make sense of such a
sense of duty?
Suppose that in an effort to free members of your
community from such a perverse sense of duty you become a
suffering servant teaching people how to pray for both
personal and communal integrity, and because of your
efforts are rejected by all, are crucified, dead and
buried.
Suppose that through your efforts some gain insight
and in your name seek to preach a gospel of
reconciliation, but others transform that gospel into a
set of criteria which clearly articulate the knowledge of
good and evil, and the sufficient grounds for personally
rejecting those people who do not conform to proper
behavior defined in terms of that knowledge of good and
evil?
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