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 %LOGIC REASON ULTIMATE COMMAND INJUNCTION PROHIBIT+960617
 %ULTIMATE POWER CONCERN LOVE GOD CREATOR INTEGRITY 960617

     Consider each ultimate  commandment,   injunction  or
prohibition  and  its fruits---for by their fruits we  may
know them.  Suppose the fruits of an ultimate commandment,
injunction or prohibition has had for many people and many
years been personal and communal disintegration.  Is there
any logic or reason by which such an ultimate commandment,
injunction  or  prohibition  can  be  worthy  of  respect,
support and/or worship?  How could there be?

     Each ultimate commandment,  injunction or prohibition
which IS worthy of respect,  support and/or  worship  must
exist  within  the  consciousness of  some  community  AND
person of integrity.    It could not exist only within one
person of integrity---for no person of integrity can exist
in  total  isolation for all communities.   It  could  not
exist  within  only  one community of  integrity  but  not
within  other communities;  and not within any  individual
persons---for  communities  are interdependent  with  each
other and with their individual members.

     AGAIN:   Each  ultimate commandment,   injunction  or
prohibition  which  is worthy of respect,  support  and/or
worship  must  exist  within  the  consciousness  of  some
community  AND person of integrity.    It follows that  if
respect   and   support  for  an   ultimate   commandment,
injunction  or prohibition leads to the disintegration  of
the communities and persons of integrity which embody  it;
then it will no longer exist in any meaningful way.   Thus
we  are  fools  if we respect  and  support  any  ultimate
commandment,   injunction or prohibition  which  is  found
through human experience to regularly lead to personal and
communal integration.   We are fools when because  of some
presumably  "holy scriptures"  or "holy  institution"   we
respect  such a disintegrative commandment,  injunction or
prohibition in spite of the fruits which it bears.

     To  be  people  of integrity  within  communities  of
integrity  we  must respect and support  ideals,   values,
commandments,   injunctions and prohibitions which lead us
and  others into integrative (rather than  disintegrative)
relationships.

     If   there   are  persistent  conflicts   within   us
individually,   within our communities, and/or between our
communities---and  we fail to seek to resolve them to  the
mutual  satisfaction  of those affected by them---then  we
will  not  be  and  enjoy  people  and/or  communities  of
integrity.   True conflict resolution, peacemaking and the
promotion of personal/communal integrity are all One  with
the  Creative work of God as Love working with  integrity.
To  fail  to recognize this is to fail to know and  be  in
communion with the ultimate powers of the universe.

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