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                             %TRUE AND WISE WORSHIP 850903

     True  and wise worship is characterized by a state of
consciousness  which prays for the integrity of all living
creatures.    The first step towards true and wise worship
is to recognize the futility of false and foolish  worship
of  creatures  of human creativity wether made of  matter,
ideas,   ideals  or  human  relationships.    False/unwise
worship often entails differentiation; worshipers thanking
their  god  for how much better they are than those  other
people from which the worshipers differentiate themselves.
Such  worshipers  often worship  the  ideas,   ideals  and
relationships  in terms of which they feel that  they  can
justify  themselves  before the  god  of their creation as
being  better  than  other  people  from  whom  they  have
alienated   themselves.     Such  worship  leads  to   the
disintegration  of personal and communal integrity and  so
may be recognized as false/unwise worship.

     True  and  wise  worshipers  are  not  proud  of  the
conflicts  and alienative factors which separate them from
other  living  creatures.   Pride in  such  conflicts  and
alienative  factors  stands  in the way  of  understanding
which is essential to true human fulfillment.   Such pride
undermines  communication which is essential  to  personal
and  communal  integrity.    Pride in  conflict  leads  to
violent  conflict and ultimate disintegration of all  that
is worthy of genuine pride.

                                                                                                                               
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