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%PRESBYNET UNITY BALANCE COMPLEMENTARY VALUE IDEAL+990816
%PRINCIPLE HEALTHY ROLE MODELS EXTREME FANATIC SIN+990816
%TERROR EITHER/OR DICHOTOMY SPECTRUM OUT TOUCH GOD+990816
%ARROGANT SELF-RIGHTEOUS SUPERIOR EGO SALVATION+990816
%DEVIL DOMINANCE SYSTEM POWERS PRINCIPALITIES FALL 990816
What is essential to personal and communal integrity
and unity?
An essential to integrity is balanced consideration
of and affirmations of many complementary: values, ideals,
principles and healthy role models.
This essential is NOT about lacking convictions,
commitments, or loyalty. It is NOT about giving in to
external pressures and expectations. It is NOT about
letting others run our lives.
Extremists, fanatics, terrorists and single-issue
advocates are unbalanced. People who reduce every issue
to either/or questions are unbalanced. People who cannot
acknowledge continuous spectrums of opportunities and
possibilities are unbalanced. People who are unfamiliar
with and prejudiced against: minorities, poor people, weak
people, women and children --- are unbalanced.
In the absence of balance people become arrogant,
self-righteous, controllers, and alienated from other
people whom they regard as unworthy, lesser, and maybe
even as evil. Such people often think that for them to be
"good", other people must be "evil"; for them to "get
ahead" other people must be "set back". Unbalanced people
contribute to personal and communal disintegration.
Unbalanced people cannot be leaders toward true unity. It
is foolish to entrust them with honor, support,
responsibility or power.
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