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 %PAUL TILLICH SERMON ACCEPT ACCEPTANCE SHAKING SIN 031022
 %MAKE SELF OTHER ACCEPTABLE SAVED SALVATION DEVILS 031022
%VULNERABLE DOMINATION MANIPULATION CONTROL REJECTE 031022
%ADVANTAGE ACHILLE'S HEALS POOR POWERLESS WEAK SICK 031022
   %DUTY GOD IDOL INTEGRITIES SACRIFICE CONSEQUENCE 031022
%TRUE LOVER PEACEMAKING WORK MITIGATE CONFLICTS SIN 031022

     If  we  have not accepted the fact that we  have been
accepted (in  the sense of Paul Tillich's  sermon  "Accept
Acceptance"   in his collection of sermons  entitled  "The
Shaking of the Foundations")  we are bound to feel/believe
that  we must make ourselves "acceptable"  or  "saved"  or
worthy of  "salvation".    Under  that  condition  of  not
beeling/believing  that we have been accepted ---   we are
tragically/terribly   vulnerable   to   the   efforts   of
domineering people to manipulate/control us.

     "Good"   domineering people diligently take advantage
of  the archille's heals of people who  are:   vulnerable,
poor,  powerless,  weak, sick, thirsty, confused,  hungry,
homeless, rejected,  etc. --- even if they are Christians,
Muslems  or Jews who are the domineering people.    It  is
the "duty"  of servants of "The Domination System" to take
such advantage of  the poor people who are defenseless ---
for  it  is  such  people  that can  most  effectively  be
dominated.

     To domineering people "The Domination System" is God;
and all forms of personal and communal integrities must be
sacrificed to the service of their god, no matter what the
consequences may  be.    Their  god must not  be  or  feel
threatened   under   any   circumstances!     The  ancient
commandments  of   "The  Domination   System"    must   be
thoughtlessly  obeyed,   in spite  of  all  of  the modern
experiences regarding  consequent  personal  and  communal
alienation  due to such idolatry.   Ancient primative laws
over-rule  modern  experiences  ---   in  the   idolatrous
"thinking"     of  loyal  worshippers and  supporters   of
"The  Domination Systemm".     True Lovers do  not   allow
ancient primative   laws  to outlaw from their  beings the
callings of God  ---  who is Love at work today saving the
poor  from "The Domination System".

     So long  as we cooperate with Domineering  People  in
thoughtlessly affirming ancient authoritarian rules, laws,
commandments,    prescriptions,       proscriptions    and
scriptures  ---    we  are sure to be  entrapped  in  "The
Domination System's"   webs of collusive  games  of   self
deception.     Our   own   modern  experiences   will   be
irrelevant;   consequences   of   our  actions,   and  our
personal/communal disintegrations will be made irrelevant.
"The  Domination  System"   will be our god  and  must  be
worshipped   regardless  of  the   consequences   of  such
idolatry.    Dominance   is our god,   and   we   must  be
dominantly in  control  to be  faithful  servants  of  our
dominant  god.   Our god and we will be dominant for  ever
and   ever.   Eventually  we will be in  full  control  of
everything!  Our dominance will be eternal and omnipotent!

    "The Domination System"  cannot be destroyed or robbed
of its  power to lead people  into  domineering/alienative
relationships   ---   by  people  engaging   in  coercive,
threatening,    or  domineering  patterns  of   attitudes,
thoughts and/or behaviors.

     True Lovers live their  lives  within Love,  so  that
there  is  reconciliation,  healing,  and  the exchange of
freely  given  and  accepted gifts of the  freedom  to  be
safely vulnerable  in  open  and  honest  dialogue  within
intimate/healthy relationships.

     Such  living may be risky;  but it is  not  necessary
that it be made to be risky.  True Lovers' lives are often
dedicated  to,   given in,   and living long and fully  in
such  service   ---     with  relatively  moderate  risks,
drama and publicity.

     Such  long and full lives of True Lovers are in  fact
gracious  signs  of  successful  efforts   to  understand,
transcend, subvert and bring "The Domination System"  to a
satisfactory  and  grace-full  conclusion  --- leading  to
shalom.     Wars are not signs of  success,   but  of  the
failures  of  people  to  be  True Lovers living long  and
gracious lives in preparations for peace and shalom.

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