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 %UNIVERSAL COMMANDMENTS PROHIBITIONS PRESCRIPTIONS+951217
 %ALWAYS LEGALISTIC IDOLATRY CONDEMNATIONS ALIENATE+951217
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     Not all commandments,  prohibitions and prescriptions
are worthy of full respect, support and enforcement in all
contexts,    situations  and  times.    In  the  hands  of
manipulative people who are unfamiliar  with the power  of
true  love  and  justice---often   "good"    commandments,
prohibitions and prescriptions are used  in ways which are
mean, violent, alienative, disintegrative---and so in ways
which are evil.

     Being   ultimately   concerned   with   commandments,
prohibitions and prescriptions is  to  be idolatrous---for
the   best  combination  of them is not worthy of ultimate
concern  and  worship;   is not God  the  Loving  Creator,
Redeemer and Holy Spirit.

     There are contexts, situations, and times,  in  which
each commandment, prohibition and prescription needs to be
transcended through  the  power of God the Loving Creator,
Redeemer and  Holy Spirit.   It is idolatrous to refuse to
permit such transcendence when it is called for by God the
Loving  Creator,   Redeemer and Holy Spirit  in  order  to
promote  personal and communal  integrity within the  Holy
Family.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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