This is http://www.essayz.com/a9304149.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %WILLING AGREE PARTICIPATE RELATION AFFECT VIOLENT+930414 %IDOLATRY WORSHIP DISINTEGRATION CODEPENDENT LOVER 930414 We need to be careful about the foci of our loyalty in proportion to the strengths of our loyalties. Ultimate loyalty amounts to worship and may be idolatrous if we are not appropriately careful. It is disintegrative of our personal and communal integrities to be ultimately loyal to addicts, codependents, colluders, collusions, family, friends, lovers, spouse, states, nations and religious organizations. Each such idolatrous ultimate loyalty leads to its own particular kinds of personal and communal disintegration: we will do well to be familiar with the kinds of disintegration associated with each kind of idolatry; and to talk openly and honestly about each kind of disintegration. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================