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%ALIENATIVE RESPONSE SINS EVIL IMMORALITY ISOLATE 970826
According to various paradigms --- sin and/or evil
should be responded to:
1. Much as one should respond to an infectious
disease. The sinner/evil-doer is viewed as "unclean" and
likely to "infect" people who are "clean". Through
separation of the "unclean" from the "clean" we can
prevent the spreading of the disease. Unfortunately such
efforts at using separation to prevent the spreading of
the disease are efforts which engender alienation which is
the essence of evil and sin.
2. With efforts to control the sinner/evil-doer
through the use of coercion; e.g., with threats,
punishments, social pressure, manipulative training,
demands, commandments, prohibitions, proscriptions,
prescriptions, taboos, etc. Unfortunately such coercive
efforts engender alienation which is the essence of evil
and sin.
3. Analytically-objectively-scientifically much as
we might try to understand, predict and control impersonal
objects and objective processes in the natural world
through the understanding of natural laws. Here the
assumption apparently is that there must be divine laws
which should operate in the personal realm --- much as
natural laws operate in the natural realm. The world is
regarded in a dualistic mode with parallel realities:
natural and divine, earthly and divine, of flesh and of
spirit, perfect and imperfect, etc. When carried over
and used in dealing with human relationships --- the
paradigm of analysis, objectivity and science ---
generates fragmentation, depersonalization, and knowledge
which is lacking in love, because of its detachment from
the "objects" of consideration. Again the efforts
engender alienation which is the essence of evil and sin.
Any way of dealing with evil and sin which fails to
acknowledge the nature of evil and sin --- will fail to
transcend the destructive aspects of the alienation which
is the essence of both evil and sin.
Evil and sin are the natural manifestations of
alienation.
Evil and sin are relational realities, rather than
aspects of individual persons.
Wherever and whenever there is evil and/or sin we
need to ask questions such as:
1. Who are the major and minor participants in the
relationships of alienation?
2. When, how, and why, did the participants begin to
become
alienated?
3. What are the kinds and amounts of power of the
participants in the alienation?
4. What roles have coercion, violence, dishonesty,
deception, perfectionism and judgementalism;
played in engendering alienation?
5. What roles have corporate/communal failures,
lacks, actions, reactions, and the like played
in engendering alienation?
6. What ideas, ideals, values, goals and
principles have led people to behave in
alienative ways?
7. How do people rationalize their continuations
of alienative conflicts and avoidance of
conflict resolution efforts.
8. Have attempts to eliminate non-conformal
behaviors engendered alienation and undermined
creative peacemaking efforts by preventing true
conflict resolution?
9. Are people playing collusive games of mutual
self-deception in the manner of addicts and
their codependent supporters?
10. Are people truly dedicated to promoting both
personal and communal integrity --- or are they
indifferent to both personal and communal
integrity?
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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