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 %WORSHIP RULES CONFORM SALVATION IDOLS REJECT SELF+930303
    %MEANS TECHNIQUE FIX IMPERFECTION ACCEPT LIMITS 930303

     When  we  worship  personalized  rules  of  conformal
salvation the personalized rules become the false gods who
demand  that we reject ourselves  and each other  for  our
failures  to  conform  properly to the idolized  rules  of
conformal salvation.  That which we create to serve as the
means  to our salvation becomes the idolatrous god  of our
damnation.

     When  we try to be in control of  our  own  salvation
through  some system of conformal rules which define  what
we and others must do to be saved; that which we create to
serve as the means to our salvation becomes the idolatrous
god of our damnation.

     We cannot  through  clever  manipulative use of  holy
scriptures,   books,   rituals,  doctrines,  institutions,
objects, relationships,  and beings---assure our salvation
through conformity to some system of conformal rules which
define what we and others must do to be saved.

     To enjoy salvation we must come to the point where in
desperation  we  are  willing to  let  go  of  our  clever
manipulative  uses of holy:  scriptures,  books,  rituals,
doctrines,   institutions,   objects,  relationships,  and
beings---to try to assure our salvation through conformity
to some system of conformal rules which define what we and
others must do to be saved.

     We cannot save ourselves through our use of our false
gods. This is the descriptive significance of the first of
the Ten Commandments, and of the New Testament revelations
of  the  misinterpretations  of the  Just  Commandment  by
people  trying  to  use the Ten  Commandments  to  achieve
salvation.

     When we eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge
of  good and evil which is in the middle of the Garden  of
Eden,  we in that eating become eager to clutch our clever
manipulative  uses of  holy  scriptures,   books, rituals,
doctrines,   institutions,   objects, relationships,   and
beings---to    try  to  assure   our own   individualistic
salvation through conformity to some system of rules which
define  what  we and others must do to be saved. We cannot
be  objectively  sure  of   the value  of  such  reflexive
knowledge of  the difference between good and  evil;   but
still we pretend otherwise in self-righteous arrogance.

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