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                     %SINS CHURCH CORPORATE PRIVATE 960614

     Religious  institutions usually recognize,  point to,
name,   describe,   and talk about private-sins more  than
corporate-sins.   How often are sermons preached about the
personal and communal disintegrations have been engendered
by the corporate/systemic sins of:

     1.  Holy Wars?

     2.  The Holy Roman Empire?

     3.  The Crusades?

     4.  The Inquisition?

     5.  Holy Excommunications?

     6.  Blessed Slavery?

     7.  Religious repression of sexuality?

     8.  Religious repression of honest descriptions?

     9.  Religious repression of critical thinking?

    10.  Religious promotion  of fear and anxiety?

    11.  Religious indifference towards integrity?

     Religious  institutions which fail to engage in  open
and honest self-criticism should be suspected of a lack of
communal  integrity---just as much as individuals who fail
to engage in  open  and  honest  self-criticism  should be
suspected of a lack of personal integrity.

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