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 %FAIL FALL AFFIRM ONE EXCLUSIVE IDEAL VALUE VIRTUE 030816
%PRINCIPLE REVERENCE WORSHIP IDOLATRY COMPLEMENTARY 030816
  %COMPENSATORY FOCI ATTENTION GODLY SELF RIGHTEOUS 030816
 %REJECTION ISOLATION ALIENATION ESTRANGEMENT ENEMY 030816
 %DISINTEGRATION DESTRUCTION COERCION VIOLENCE EVIL 030816

     We fall/fail whenever we affirm any ONE ideal, value,
principle,   virtue,  etc.  ---  to the exclusion of other
complementary/compensatory  foci of attention.     In each
occasion there are ideals,  values,  principles,  virtues,
etc.    ---    which   will  need  to   be   affirmed   as
complementary/compensatory  to  any ONE that we  may  have
elevated to the level of being our IDOL/GOD.

     No one or few  ideals,  values,  principles, virtues,
etc.   can  with-integrity be-affirmed-exclusively  as  of
ultimate-importance and worthy of unqualified-reverence as
our IDOL/GOD.   In each instance of an arrogant exclusive-
affirmation   there  are  complementary  ideals,   values,
principles,  virtues ---  which are essential-foundations-
for-personal-and-communal-integrities.    In the  face  of
each  instance  of arrogance,   self-righteousness  and/or
idolatry ---   we  are called by the  ONE-WELL-INTEGRATED-
GOD to  work  to  promote-and-facilitate integrations-and-
integrities    through    love,     openness,     honesty,
reconciliation,  healing,  and complementary affirmations.
God is not exclusive.   Affirmations which merit reverence
are   not  exclusive  affirmations.     The   people   and
affirmations that  most  merit  reverence  are  authentic,
creative and gracious as integrators and reconcilers.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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