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                 God is love.

     God's work in love is to bring together complementary
opposites which often are seen as unavoidably in conflict.

     What others see as unavoidably in conflict---God sees
as potentially united in cooperative works of love.

     What others see as unavoidably in conflict---God sees
as appropriately complementary to each other.

     What others see appropriately as the grounds for holy
conflict---God  created  appropriately as the holy grounds
for cooperation.

     What others  see as points with which to  pierce  the
integrity  of  the opposition---God sees as  opportunities
for complementing the fullness of the other's integrity.

     In  paradoxically  complementary truths, God presents
the  yin  and  yang  of the whole truth.   That  which  is
lacking in one  truth, is often found in its complementary
(but apparently opposite) truth.

     When we refuse to cooperate in finding common grounds
for  cooperation in complementary  truths---we  engage  in
violent   conflicts  over  complementary  definitions   of
heresies.

     We engage  in conflicts over definitions of  heresies
which fail to recognize, name, describe or acknowledge how
complementary   they   are---or  how   they   pertain   to
complementary parts of the whole truth.

     When we take parts of the whole truth and dishonestly
pretend  that  they are individually the  whole  truth  in
isolation---we  violate the integrity of the  whole  truth
and do violence  and each other's integrity.   Through our
violence  we  engender alienative relationships which  are
central   to  all  that  is  evil  and   our   communities
disintegrate.

     When  we  fail to honor the holy integrity  of  God's
love and each other's  love working  to bring together the
complementary  parts  of  the  whole  truth---we  and  our
communities disintegrate within evil relationships.

     When  we  work  together  to  promote  our   isolated
conceptions  of  partial  truths ---  as  if  the  partial
fragmented truths were the whole truth with integrity---we
work  to fragment the whole truth, and so fragment our own
personal and communal integrity.

     When we  work  together  to  integrate  our  isolated
conceptions of  partial truths ---we work cooperatively in
the whole  truth  to promote our own personal and communal
integrity.

     If we  do not work together to recognize our  partial
truths as  isolated  parts  of  God's  whole  Truth --- we
disintegrate  within  alienative relationships  which  are
central to all that is evil.

                                                                                                                               
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