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%CHAOS AND ORDER IN GOD'S CREATION 970716
See the preceding essays for background information.
In mysterious ways which are forever beyond human
understanding, description and control --- God began and
continues the process of creating and renewing the cosmos
--- from the farthest quasars, galaxies and black holes,
to the nearest creatures here on the relatively tiny
planet Earth orbiting our sun, an average star among
billions of stars in our galaxy, which is just among the
billions of galaxies in the cosmos.
God's processes of creation has brought some earthly
order out of a great deal of cosmic chaos; but chaos,
disorder and "imperfections" still threatens us within
God's continuing creative processes involving:
(1) Meters, comets, and asteroids which orbit past
and often are added to planet Earth in collusions which
have occasionally been unimaginably destructive to
creature on Earth.
(2) Plate tectonic motions of the solid surface
parts of EArth generate earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions which are often unimaginably destructive to us.
(3) Weather processes including hurricanes,
typhoons, tornadoes, floods and droughts which caused
untold human suffering.
(4) Climatic changes which have forced major changes
in human life styles and communal patterns; and will
continue to do so.
(5) Evolutions of new strains of bacteria, viruses,
prions, molds and amoebas which have brought us new
infections and diseases with their associated suffering
and insecurity.
Humans have not always responded to chaos and
imperfections in honest and gracious ways. Often our
responses have been dishonest and generated alienation
which has in turn led to more chaos through dysfunctional
behavior patterns that are tragically alienative.
When through dishonesty we lose touch with reality,
each other, and our own emotions, needs and desires; we
become alienated from God, neighbors and ourselves --- and
are incapable of acting wisely. Our collusive games of
mutual self deception blind us to our own dishonesty,
alienation, personal disintegration and communal
disintegration --- so we cannot save ourselves or others
no matter how hard we try or how smart and sophisticated
we are.
Even our best and most respected organizations,
institutions and communities have been corrupted by our
desperate efforts to become self-sufficient --- through
our own efforts to manipulate and control our destinies
--- without honestly dealing with our human limitations,
limited resources, and fellow travelers on space-ship
Earth. Elitism, exclusivity, legalism, judgementalism,
condemnations, excommunications and their consequences
have made us and our organizations impotent.
In our desperation we have become addicted to and/or
codependent supporters of addictions to: alcohol, drugs,
work, sex, science, technology, religiosity, power,
politics, knowledge, controls, etc.; both as individuals
and as communities. Increased efforts along these lines
are tragically alienative and counter-productive.
Refusing to recognize our alienation from God, each
other and ourselves as central to our mistakes, failures
--- and patterns of immoral behaviors, we focus upon
identifying evil behavior, and people to blame, shame,
guilt and punish. We are most concerned with who is best
or worst --- and little concerned with recognizing
alienation as the essence of all evil RELATIONSHIPS which
engender immoral behaviors.
Immoral behaviors flow from alienation and engender
alienation through:
dishonesty imbalance
violence coercion
neglect ridicule
slander liable
belittling demeaning
blaming guilting
shaming broken promises
threats insults
abandonment abuse
misleading perjury
extortion stealing
assault murder
rape kidnapping
When we define immorality in terms of non-conformity
and we seek to reduce immoral behavior through the use of
alienative procedures --- we fail tragically by failing to
deal honestly with alienative RELATIONSHIPS which engender
immoral behaviors.
Only if we trace immoral patterns of behavior to
their roots in patterns of alienative RELATIONSHIPS can we
honestly describe and deal wisely with both patterns and
their many inter-relationships. Only then can we work
wisely to reduce alienation and the immoral patterns of
behavior which flow from alienation.
Some behaviors on the part of alienated individuals
pose such a clear and present danger to our personal and
communal integrity --- that coercion and violence may
regretfully have to be used in ways prescribed by public
laws --- to reduce the danger of greater alienation and
disintegration; e.g., in regards to:
Murder Rape
Assault Robbery
Extortion Arson
Perjury Kidnapping
Terrorism Stalking
Abuse Embezzlement
We need to seek to distinguish between instances of
the above willful behaviors; and occasions of:
Accidents Mistakes Fumbles
Disability Ignorance Tragedies
Confusion Sickness Mutations
The preceding occasions are not willful, are much
regretted, and are apologized for. To treat them all as
if they are all equivalent --- will be alienative and so
disintegrative.
We need to beware of people who do not deal with
immoral behaviors from alienative RELATIONSHIPS and who
instead seek to enforce prescriptions and proscriptions in
alienative ways. They are likely to engender alienation
and immorality through:
Arrogance Self-righteousness
Coercion Guilting
Shaming Blaming
Threats punishments
Excommunications Rejections
Either/or demands Threats
Intolerance Extremism
We need to beware when such people form addictive
organizations dedicated to trying to control --- what they
have not been properly appointed or empowered to control
in the name of Love.
The above speaks more to relationships which are low
in intimacy, then to relationships which entail high
levels of intimacy.
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