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People often accept and honor commandments without
any sense of the reasons why:
(1) The commandments make sense,
(2) The commandments are reasonable, or
(3) The commandments may contribute to promoting
both personal and communal integrity.
Such thoughtless acceptance and honor often leads to
tragic idolatry in which the commandments are worshipped
as if they were gods --- rather than being regarded as as
reasonable, logical, integrative guidelines for healthy
living.
Personal and communal integrity decline when
powerful idolaters who worship particular commandments
regard themselves as appointed by their gods to enforce
the commandments of their gods. Because of their ultimate
loyalty to their gods --- such idolaters are inclined to
obey what they regard as the commandments of their gods
and seek to enforce the commandments of their gods---
regardless of how great the costs may be in the loss of
personal and communal integrity. Such idolaters often
become extremists who excommunicate themselves from
balanced people who seek to be peacemakers, healers, and
liberators of people imprisoned by collusive games of
mutual self deception, addictions, and patterns of
codependent service.
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