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     %LEGALISTIC SYSTEMATIC GROUNDS ACCEPTANCE LOVE 940904

     Legalistic  religious  leaders  are offended  by  any
personal acceptance which is not grounded in conformity to
their rules, regulations,  prohibitions, prescriptions and
dogmas;     for any such non-conformal personal acceptance
is  a threat   to their power  base  and  their ability to
appear to maintain control.  Such non-conformal acceptance
is made to  look unacceptable  because  it  is  seen as  a
threat   to  the  security  which  is  offered  by   their
legalistic system.  Many people are insecure,  fearful and
defensive;  and do not want to deal with any threat to the
status  quo which might lead to unknown risks.   Thus many
people  can  be led to see non-conformal acceptance as  an
unacceptable   risk  which  should  not  be  respected  or
tolerated.

     For  the above reasons legalistic  religious  leaders
work tacitly  to undermine the works of Holy  Spirit, God,
Love and Truth---dangerously leading people to accept each
other  in  non-conformal  ways  which  are  not   properly
dominated    by   rules,    regulations,     prohibitions,
prescriptions or dogmas.   The collusive  games  of mutual
self deception of  legalistic religious  leaders make non-
conformal  personal acceptance taboo---in  ways which  may
not be recognized, named, described or talked about.  This
makes it difficult to transcend the paradigm of legalistic
religious  leaders  such as  those who  conspired  to  get
Jesus of Nazareth crucified---because of his non-conformal
acceptance of non-conformists who were  not  acceptable in
terms of the dominant rules,  regulations,   prohibitions,
prescriptions  and  dogmas  of  the  legalistic  religious
leaders of his community of faith.

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