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%FREEDOM FROM FEAR ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT EVIL SIN+970320
%COERCION MANIPULATION VIOLENCE TERRORISM WAR FORCE+970320
  %THREATS PUNISHMENT EXCOMMUNICATION CONDEMNATIONS+970320
%ADDICTION CODEPENDENCY COLLUSION CONFLICTS DISEASE+970320
%RECONCILIATION FORGIVENESS SALVATION GOOD RELIGION 970320

     There is much which we fear and yearn to be free of.

     Much  of  what we fear flows from evil  relationships
which  are characterized by:   alienation,   estrangement,
coercion,  manipulations, violence,  threats,  punishment,
excommunication,  condemnations, addictions, codependency,
collusions,  conflicts, disease, terrorism and war.   Such
evil  relationships  and their bitter fruits are  not  the
fruits of the works of Love.    We yearn to be free of the
bitter fruits of  evil relationships.    Yet,   in seeking
to escape  from such bitter fruits ---  we often  engender
evil relationships.

     We too often regard evil as characteristic of people,
places,  things, words, thoughts,  needs,  and integrative
desires  ---  rather than as a characteristic of  personal
relationships.   If we  are  confused regarding what it is
appropriate to attribute evil to---we are unlikely to deal
with evil in appropriate ways.

     When  we  attribute evil to people,  places,  things,
thoughts,      needs   and  integrative  desires  ---   we
become alienated from them ---  within evil  relationships
with  people  of   like  and  contrasting    views   about
what  we   may appropriately attribute evil to.

     When   we   attribute   evil   primarily   to    evil
relationships we become  free  to work  with other  people
(both  inside  and  outside  of  evil  relationships)   to
transcend and overcome alienation estrangement,  coercion,
manipulations,   violence,       threats,      punishment,
excommunication,       condemnations,          addictions,
codependency,    collusions, conflicts, disease, terrorism
and war.

     There is much which we fear and yearn to be free of.

     We  become free of much which we fear and yearn to be
free of ---  when we recognize,  name,   describe and talk
about why  it  is  that it is most  helpful  to  attribute
evil  primarily to dysfunctional human  relationships  ---
including  those  in which we are  participating.     Evil
relationships   cannot   be   fixed   by   "others"     by
themselves   if   we   are  participating   in  the   evil
relationships  ---   which  is  often the case.    We  are
participating  in  evil relationships when  we   attribute
evil   to other  people,    places,    things,   thoughts,
needs and integrative desires ---  apart from  our selves.
Such  attributions  are part of what  engenders  our  evil
relationships.      It   is   arrogant   to   make    such
attributions.    We cannot be free of evil --- so long  as
we make  such attributions.     We cannot "overcome"  evil
so long as we make such attributions.

                                                                                                                               
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