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     Human  alienative/collusive  games  of  mutual  self-
deception  blind  people  to the  divine  efforts  towards
reconciliation---by accentuating the disintegrative forces
of alienation motivated by human efforts to achieve  self-
righteousness within homogeneous groups of people.

     People  who are playing collusive/alienative games of
mutual self-deception,  fear the risks of transfiguration,
metamorphosis,   transcendence,  transformation,   growth,
change, reconciliation, repentance and learning from daily
mistakes.   They cling to the kind of security offered  by
laws,  and are aversive to the kind of security offered by
laws.  They transform the love into laws ---  because they
are  insecure and do not want to admit that true  security
entails  vulnerability  within contexts which  entail  the
exchange  of  free  gifts  of the  freedom  to  be  safely
vulnerable.

     Insecure people often yield to the temptation to  use
and  abuse  sacred  texts which they  do  not  understand,
cannot predict, and cannot control.  They use word-strings
from  selected   texts as buck-shot to be fired  at  those
different people whom they do not know,  do not understand
and do not trust---and so regard those different people as
their enemies or as traitors among their friends.

     Old patterns of thought, belief, behaviors, and self-
righteousness lead to old patterns of alienation, personal
disintegration and communal disintegration.   If we do not
learn  from  the  mistakes and the  past---we  repeat  the
mistakes  of the past and suffer again the consequences of
repeating those mistakes, just as in the past.

                                                                                                                               
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