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  %DIFFERENT CONCEPTIONS QUESTIONS LIBERATION SAVED+011025
  %SALVATION REDEMPTION SANCTIFICATION ORIGINAL SIN+011025
 %CREATIVE CONCEPTIONS DEVILS GOODS CROSS JESUS GOD+011025
  %CHRISTIANS MUSLIMS JEWS MONOTHEISTS TRINITARIANS+011025
 %INTOLERANCE PREJUDICE DISHONESTY COLLUSION ADDICT+011025
 %SLAVERY SERVANTS LORDS DOMINATION SYSTEMS SCIENCE 011025
                                                          
     What   is it that we need to be liberated/saved from?
Different people answer this questions in different ways: 
                                                          
     1.  From "Original sin"   which came into being  when
Eve   and Adam were disobedient by literally eating  fruit
from  the literally forbidden tree in a literal Garden  of
Eden;  causing separation between themselves and God,  and
so  causing separation between their literal   descendants
and God.   All humans need to be saved/liberated from that
state  of  separation which was caused by  Eve  and  Adam,
humans  cannot save/liberate themselves.                  
                                                          
     2.  From  the  condition of alienation of   ourselves
from our true selves, from each other true self,  and from
the   Transcendent/Integrative/Integrated Ground of  Being
Truly  Healthy.     Real-humans and real-human-communities
rarely  fulfill all their potentials for open and   honest
communications,    community,  civility,  integration  and
health.     We need help in transcending our own and  each
other's unavoidable imperfections.                        
                                                          
     3.  From  rebellious  people who refuse to  do   what
they  know fully well that they should do.    Some  people
are  in rebellion from God who is perfect,   the source of
perfect:     laws,    regulations,     prescriptions   and
proscriptions.    We need to be saved from such rebellious
people and all of there misdeeds, attitudes,  and arrogant
beliefs   that  they can do what they want to  do  without
interference from anybody, human or divine.               
                                                          
     4.  From   unfortunate   mis-fortunes   in    natural
processes ---   which  bring  gentle  rains  and  volcanic
eruptions,  warm breezes and hurricanes,  firm foundations
and  earthquakes,    cool  breezes  and  freezing   rains,
genetically  healthy  people and  genetically   un-healthy
people, etc.                                              
                                                          
     5.  From   human   tragedies   rooted    in    naive,
uninformed and prejudiced idealism ---   idealism which is
not capable of leading humans into cooperatively  creative
work within civil communities of civil people.            
                                                          
     6.  From supporters of "The Domination System"  which
concentrates powers and benefits into the hands of a   few
servants of "The Domination System"  --- at the expense of
the  many victims who for many reasons lack the power   to
understand,    subvert  and/or transcend  "The  Domination
System" and all of its perverse technologies of control.  
                                                          
     7.  From  addictive,   codependent,    and  collusive
relationships   within  which people cannot fulfill  their
God-given unique potentials and creative possibilities.   
                                                          
     8.  From ignorance, prejudice, dishonesty,  deception
and  dis-eases which undermine the possibilities of mutual
understanding, reconciliation and cooperative work.       
                                                          
     9.  From  religious  leaders who have perverted   the
insight   and  work of those who long  ago  founded  their
religious traditions,   from perversions which are pointed
to in the text above.                                     
                                                          
    10.  From   idolaters  who focus much too  exclusively
upon  just one truth/priority (or just  a very few  truths
and/or  priorities);   refusing to acknowledge any of  the
complementary  truths/priorities which are pointed to   in
paradoxical   ways by integrative people  and  communities
through their creative and cooperative ways.              
                                                          
    11.  From   the misinterpretations of ancient stories,
myths  and  cosmologies  ---  which are not literally true
within  the context  of  modern scientific  understandings
of natural physical objects and processes.                
                                                          
    12.  From   preoccupations  with  individual  isolated
human beings  ---    preoccupations which prevent  us from
seeing  the  importance of the essential foundations   for
both   personal  and  communal  integrities ---  which are
sustainable   in   real  daily  living  that  is    civil,
integrative, robust, and enduring.                        
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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