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    %PUBLIC PRAYER PROBLEMATIC CONSIDER EXPECTATION+030325
 %COERCIVE DEMANDS TACIT RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY HONEST+030325
%ACCEPT REJECT AFFIRM DENIAL SECRECY PRIVACY SINNER 030325

     Public   prayer  duties  often   entail   problematic
considerations.    What  is one to do when asked to  offer
public  prayers  which  are  EXPECTED  to  be  offered  in
demonstration  of  spiritual  beliefs  which  one   cannot
oneself  accept with personal integrity?  The EXPECTATIONS
may be quite COERCIVE!   One's own religious community may
not   tolerate   any   reasonable   departure   from   the
tacitly  prescribed  assumptions in the EXPECTED  form  of
prayer  --- and  may  at  least  tacitly reject anyone who
fails   to fulfill  the tacit expectations.     How are we
to    regard  religious   communities  that  cannot   with
integrity   accept  into  open  and  honest  dialogue  any
healthy   people  who cannot   with   personal   integrity
affirm   the    coercive  EXPECTATIONS  of  the  religious
community?
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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