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%SYSTEMIC CHRISTIAN ADDICTIVE SINS COLLUSIONS LEGAL+930605
  %EXCLUSIVE PRIDE CONTROL SUPERIOR MORAL LAW RULES 930605

     We need to recognize,  describe,  talk about and seek
to outgrow the most common systemic Christian sins:

     1.  Pride in owning and managing what are regarded as
superior:   theologies,  doctrines,  scriptures,  rituals,
liturgies,  moralities, life styles,  churches,  polities;
and  therefore pride in being superior people who are more
certainly  saved from hell and damnation---than are  those
other  evil  people  who  shall  not  be  named  or  known
intimately.

     2.  Exclusivity towards those children of God who are
not  as good as we are, and who are therefore evil  in our
eyes; to be avoided, or at most preached at.

     3.  Preoccupations   with  issues  of  control   over
different   people's   beliefs,    thoughts,    attitudes,
expressions, feelings, experiences, and life styles.

     4.  Preoccupations    with   abstractions   such   as
theologies,  doctrines,  moral codes,  ethical principles,
rules  and  regulations---to  the exclusion  of  open  and
honest  talking,  conversations,  dialogue  and  listening
relate   intimately  to  our  own  personal   experiences,
feelings, doubts, attitudes,  beliefs, convictions, hopes,
aspirations,  desires,   fears and failures---which do not
conform  to  the  requirements of the  abstractions  which
focus little upon the personal and communal disintegration
which they often promote.

     Addictive organizations as corporate entities as well
as addictive individual people need to learn to understand
and talk about the  dynamics  of addictions,  codependence
and  collusive  games  of  mutual  self  deception.     No
collection  of unrelated individual recovery programs  can
succeed  in the  face  of  addictive  organizations  which
corporately  refuse  to  engage in any kind  of  corporate
program designed to promote recovery of  corporate honesty
integrity,  health,  meaning,  significance,  and over-all
well    being   for   all   concerned   individuals    and
organizations.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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