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%KNOWLEDGE GOOD GARDEN DEVIL DISOBEDIENCE SIN GOD+990626
%TREE BITTER FRUIT EXCOMMUNICATION ALIENATION FALL+990626
%QUESTION RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY TEXT SCRIPTURE BIBLE+990626
%FALSE DICHOTOMY EXCLUSIVITY 990626
Often we are confronted by false dichotomies when we
are seeking to promote both personal and communal
integrity. False dichotomies engender disintegrative
conflicts which we need to learn to recognize, name,
describe and talk about. Which participants in such
conflicts are most:
1. Gentle, humble, and/or merciful; and which of
them are most coercive, arrogant and/or judgmental?
2. Loyal to exclusive people/groups; and which of
them are prudently tolerant of creative non-conformists
who respect other people's rights, desires, hopes and
aspirations.
3. Preoccupied with distinctions between "spirit"
regarded as "good", and "flesh" regarded as "evil".
4. Preoccupied with distinctions between "obedience"
regarded as "good" and "non-conformity" regarded as
"evil".
5. Concerned with identifying and recognizing people
who "belong" in their "in-group" as "good"; and those who
do NOT "belong" in their "in-group" as "evil".
6. Concerned with laws, commandments, prescriptions,
and proscriptions which have been written down and
preserved in verbal texts which are regarded as "good".
7. Focused upon understanding how to helpfully
facilitate reconciliation, cooperation, healing, mutual
understanding, liberation, creativity, and integrity.
8. Suspicious of people who are involved in intimate
friendships and/or sexual relationships.
9. Prone to behave in the manner of addicts and
their codependent supporters.
10. Inclined to look at whole situations to
facilitate balanced living with people enjoying honest
security as the freedom to be safely vulnerable; rather
than with people seeking to enjoy invulnerability as the
key to defensive security.
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