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 %THEORY ROLE MODEL UNCONDITIONAL MUTUAL ACCEPTANCE+940130
%REJECT TOLERATE SUPPORT RESPECT RELIGION SALVATION 940130

     Within   religious   and   secular   contexts   where
alienation and  disintegration  are  common there is great
need  for    both  theoretical   and  role-model   clarity
regarding    unconditional  mutual acceptance---in regards
to what     such acceptance is, and what it is not.

     Healthy  acceptance is confused by pervasive patterns
of conditional acceptance which is manipulative, coercive,
violent,   and so alienative.  Religious communities which
practice    formal    and/or    informal    patterns    of
excommunication,   shunning and disfellowshipping ---   in
attempts    to   coerce  members  into   conformity    ---
thereby  contribute  much  to ---   alienative   confusion
regarding  healthy acceptance and  what   constitutes  the
good news of their religious community.

     Often   the  good  news  of  the  gospel  has  become
converted  and perverted  into   pervasive   patterns   of
conditional acceptance which are manipulative,   coercive,
violent,    and so  alienative---rather  than   forgiving,
reconciling   and  integrative.   The  New  Testament   is
ignored  in favor of the preoccupations   of    the    Old
Testament.  Legalistic injunctions and  judgmentalism have
often    replaced  gracious     forgiveness   and   honest
reconciliation. In such confusion    about the  nature  of
true   acceptance,   chaos    reigns     supreme,      and
both   personal   and    communal    integrities       are
undermined.   Often  this is done  in  the  name   of  the
supreme    non-conformist  who by   his  birth,      life,
teachings,   death and   renewal  revealed  how   impotent
(rather       than important)    all  laws are in the face
of  alienation  and disintegration.

     We  need the clarity of clear role-models and  simple
articulations  which  demonstrate  the  power  of    truly
unconditional  mutual  acceptance---to    transcend    the
disintegrative   patterns  of  mutual  self;    deception,
manipulation, coercion, violence and alienation.

     Unconditional  mutual  acceptance  does  not  include
tolerance  of and/or respect for:  dishonesty,  deception,
coercive and violent manipulations; alienation, indolence,
injustice,  meanness,  judgmentalism,    excommunications,
disfellowshipping, arrogance, self-justification, or other
such  alienative ---  patterns  and  all  that  goes  with
them.   Unconditional   mutual  acceptance   affirms   the
ultimate   importance   of  keeping   the   channels    of
communication as open  as  is  possible  within the limits
of  being   human.   Unconditional    mutual    acceptance
affirms    the   ultimate  importance   of   working    to
promote  the  integrity of  the whole family  of  God  who
was,    is   and   ever  shall be the  central  focus  of:
creation,   conception,  birth,  rebirth, truth,     love,
reconciliation  and  integrity  for  all creatures.

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