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      %LEGALISTIC RELIGIOUS RITUALISTIC PURITY CODE 951105

     Some  people  live their lives in terms of  religious
and/or legalistic purity codes which define in ritualistic
terms how to be pure,  acceptable and respectable.    They
are not concerned with practical considerations---although
their  codes  of ritualistic purity may in dim  ways  have
origins  in   pre-historical  practical considerations  of
cleanliness and disease prevention.

     Legalistic  purists are not concerned with  practical
considerations.     Legalistic  purists  are  are   rather
concerned with the  worship  of  and service of legalistic
idols.   Legalistic  purists  are  idolaters  who worship:
rules,     regulations,     disciplines,     prohibitions,
proscriptions, prescriptions, formulas---in terms of which
they define who is good and who is evil; through tests  of
conformity and through rejection of non-conformity.

     Legalistic  purists do not seek to  promote  personal
and communal integrity---rather they  seek  to promote the
worship  of  arbitrary codes of conduct which are  revered
for non-pragmatic reasons.  Legalistic purists do not seek
to solve practical technical problems or resolve reflexive
human  dilemmas through human reconciliation and  conflict
resolution.  Legalistic purists seek to maintain conflicts
between their worship of their traditional laws on the one
hand---and  practical considerations related to  technical
problems and reflexive human dilemmas.  They worship their
legalistic idols.  They are legalistic idolaters.

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