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%AGENT AGENCY SALVATION NATURE MEANS TECHNOLOGY SIN+000714
 %SELF OTHER DEPENDENCY DETACH INTERDEPENDENT DEVIL+000714
%GOOD GOD FALLEN SANCTIFICATION PARTICIPATION PRIDE+000714
   %ARROGANCE SELFRIGHTEOUSNESS COLLUSION ADDICTION 000714
                                                          
     The   nature   of  religious  groups  and   religious
relationships   depend  greatly  upon   how   participants
formulate, frame, confuse, suppress, and repress questions
having to do with good, evil,  damnation,  salvation, etc.
The following are suggestive alternatives:                
                                                          
     1.  What are the technical means to salvation;  i.e.,
what tools,  doctrines, confessions, scriptures,  rituals,
behavior  patterns,  avoidances,  collusions,  addictions,
fellowships,  etc.  can be effectively used by individuals
who seek to achieve salvation?                            
                                                          
     2.  What is/are the agent(s) of salvation; i.e., what
god(s), savior(s), individual(s), group(s), fellowship(s),
spirit(s),  principality,  power(s)  ---  can,  may, or do
initiate  what  is  essential to  the  salvation  of  some
individual(s) and/or group(s)?                            
                                                          
     3.  To  what extent,  if any,  does an individual  or
group participate in its own salvation; or in the blocking
of its own salvation?   In what way?  For what reason?  By
what logic?   To whose satisfaction?                      
                                                          
     4.  To  what  extent,  if any,  can an individual  or
group participate in  the salvation of  another individual
or group;  or  in the blocking of the salvation of another
individual or group?                                      
                                                          
     5.  Is   salvation  something  which  can/cannot   be
verified  as present or absent for a particular individual
or group?   By whom?  By what means?    With what level of
confidence?  To what effect; e.g., with what benefits and 
costs; to whom?                                           
                                                          
     6.  Is salvation some spiritual "state" which resides
in  a  spiritual "realm"  which is disconnected  from  the
world   of   personal  experiences,    perceptions,    and
understanding;   or is salvation discernible in  empirical
ways by mortals  who are participants in open,  honest and
healthy relationships?                                    
                                                          
     7.  How is salvation related to: personal  integrity,
communal integrity, honesty, openness, humility, meekness,
non-violence,    gentleness,    cooperation,     security,
liberation, freedom,  vulnerability, sanctuary,  patience,
peacemaking,     conflict-resolution,      reconciliation,
forgiveness, tolerance,  acceptance, interdependence,  and
other complementary realities?                            
                                                          
     8.  How  is  damnation related  to:   disintegration,
dishonesty,  addiction,     secrecy,   arrogance,   pride,
violence,     domination,    contentiousness,    defenses,
independence,     invulnerability,    war,    im-patience,
militarism,  weapons,  controls,  alienation,  resentment,
intolerance,    rejection,    exclusion,    condemnations,
excommunications and other alienative realities?          
                                                          
     9.  How is magic related to salvation and damnation? 
                                                          
     10. Are   there   limits   which   are   imposed   by
transcendent powers  upon how many people/groups can enjoy
the benefits of salvation?                                
                                                          
     If questions such as these are not framed,  asked and
discussed openly and honestly --- what is wrong?          
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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