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                     %PREACH LOVE PRACTICE LEGALISM 960101

     Preachers  who  preach a gospel of love and  practice
judgementalism  in terms of legalistic codes  designed  to
promote severe conformity---thereby demonstrate their lack
of personal and  communal  integrity.   They are not truly
honest.   They promote  alienation which is the essence of
evil---while saying that they  are  contending against the
forces of evil in the world.  They see evil in people whom
they  work  to alienate---and  claim  to  be preaching the
gospel of love.

     People  who seek to spread a gospel of love cannot do
so  in  the abstract.   It is done  by  demonstrating  the
practical  implications of the gospel of love---by  loving
others as they have been loved in transcendent ways beyond
their   understanding  and  explanations.     Talk   about
transcendent  love  in the absence  of  demonstrations  of
human love is empty talk---which casts the gospel  of love
into  disrepute---making those who are not  familiar  with
the gospel of love suspicious of all who preach the gospel
of love.   If people who preach the gospel of love  cannot
be  trusted---of what possible value could the  gospel  of
love be?
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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