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       %FIRST COMMANDMENT LOVE GOD COLLUSION ADDICT 920118

     The  first of the Ten Commandments enjoins us to love
only God and to love no other creation of man.  Why?

     Anyone  who  is  in  the  service  of  a   collusion,
addiction  or  codependence  is clearly  loving  something
other  than God.   Thus the First Commandment is a warning
against the hazards of becoming a servant of a  collusion,
addiction   or  codependence;   each  of   which   entails
dishonesty, alienation and violence in the broad sense.

     The  First Commandment is a call to be  honest  about
the  fact  that  we  cannot be  whole  with  personal  and
communal  integrity  if we are in the service  of  ideals,
values and goals which do not transcend us,  our creations
and our technologies.  The creations which we may serve in
idolatrous  ways include  our exclusive systems of ideals,
values, goals and technologies; systems which we set up as
having the power to  substitute for the God who  is  Love.
Serving  such substitutes as if  they could substitute for
God who is Love is to violate the First Commandment.

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