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   %MANY GROUNDS FOR EXCOMMUNICATION DISINTEGRATION 880612

     If  there is any ground for excommunicating  any  one
member  of a community,  by the same logic there  will  be
many  grounds for excommunicating any other member of  the
same community.

     Usually  the  grounds for excommunication have to  do
with  a lack of conformity on the part of a member of  the
community.

     If a community respects any (and so many) grounds for
excommunicating  non-conformist members of the  community,
the  community  has  no grounds upon which to  ground  its
communal  integrity.    Once the logic of  excommunicating
members  for  non-conformity has  permeated  the  dominant
attitudes  of a community,  the seeds of  the  community's
disintegration have been sown.

     The  reasons for never excommunicating any one member
of  a community are rooted in the importance  of  personal
and  communal integrity.   To attack the integrity of  any
member  of  the community,  or to attack  the  integrating
relationships  between any member of the community and the
rest  of  the community,  is to attack the essence of  the
community; its unity, integrity, conversations,  dialogue,
communication channels and listening.

     If  the reasons for never excommunicating any  member
of  a  community are not respected,   the  foundations  of
personal and communal integrity are not respected; and the
community will disintegrate.

     It is not enough to refrain from excommunication.  To
be faithful to each other,  members of a community need to
seek  to  deepen  the  levels  of  listening,    dialogue,
conversation,     integrity   and unity.    Integrity   is
never  stagnant.    Integrity  is  dynamic  and constantly
growing; or disintegration  sets in.   Life has to do with
integration and   making   connections.    Death  has   to
do   with disintegration and breaking connections.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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