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%PRESBYNET UNITY PASSIVE VOICE SCIENCE DESCRIPTION+990826
%PERSONAL TARGET ATTACK TOLERATE ARROGANCE REJECT 990826
What is essential to personal and communal integrity?
Here "essential" is used to **describe** whatever by its
ABSENCE leads to personal and communal disintegration.
"Essential" here does NOT mean "most important."
The PASSIVE VOICE is used in most of these notes in
keeping with the long standing tradition among scientists
to describe what is discerned without reference to the
unique personal aspects of the author(s). The hope here
is to offer descriptions which transcend the characters
and experiences of individual persons --- and so eliciting
resonances within many different people and their
experiences. Here the hope is to offer descriptions which
are NOT motivated by personal views regarding the
combatants in the current conflicts under discussion.
Regrettably, some people may understandably feel that they
and the people with whom they are in fellowship have been
"targeted". It is hoped that the essentials which are
articulated here are chosen and articulated in ways which
transcend conscious and unconscious targeting of
identifiable fellowships of Christians.
It is essential that we as religious leaders consider
the likely consequential costs to weak and vulnerable
people --- when we as religious leaders make plans to
honor and enforce what we regard as important
commandments, prohibitions, and prescriptions.
This is NOT to say that we can reasonably be
indifferent to the arrogance of unconventional people who
refuse to honor essential commandments, prohibitions, and
prescriptions --- which serve to promote both personal and
communal integrity.
This is NOT to say that we can reasonably tolerate
such indifference --- in ways which encourage such
indifference.
This IS to say that we need to be careful not to be
arrogant or self-righteous in our efforts to affirm and
enforce integrative: commandments, prohibitions and
prescriptions.
This IS to say that we need to be careful that our
enforcement efforts do not engender greater overall harm
than would occur in the absence of our enforcement
efforts.
This IS to say that we should not seek to earn merit
points and honor-badges through our efforts to get people
to conform to our conceptions of what they should: need,
desire, feel, think, say, fear, and do.
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