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%GOD TALKERS THEOLOGIANS DEFINE CONCEIVE EVIL BEING 041010
%EQUAL EMPHASIS EXCLUSIVE ALIENATION NEIGHBORS SINS 041010
%COMMUNITY COMMITTMENT INTEGRATIONS INTEGRITIES SEX 041010
 %BEING TOGTHER FRIENDS OPEN HONEST DIALOGUE TRUTHS 041010
   %DOMINEERING CONTROL POWER CONCENTRATE POLARIZED 041010
 %BINARY DICHOTOMY PROPER IDEAL FORMULAS TRADITIONS 041010

     Often  theologians (God talkers)  define  "evil"   as
being  essentially  and primarily about  "alienation  from
God".   Such theologians  often  fail to   place  an equal
emphasis  upon alienation from:  neighbors,   communities,
self,  committments to human integrations and integrities,
etc. ---  as well as upon human alienations from God.  Why
do some people  put  the primary and/or the whole emphasis
upon alienation from God alone?

     Might such theologians be  domineering people who are
preoccupied with issues of: control, power-concentrations,
polarizations,   binary-thinking,  dichotomization,   etc.
Might they be focusing upon the concentration of all power
into the hands of "their" God --- who is conceived by them
as all-powerful?   By conceiving and/or definining  "evil"
as  being essentially and primarily about "alienation from
God-the-all-powerful"  ---  they can justify the  myth  of
redemptive  violence  in  terms of  which  they  can  then
conveniently  "justify"  their unilateral  destruction  of
evil-people who threaten "their all-powerful-God" ---  who
needs their help to defend Himself.

     The more  domineering a Man is --- the more  insecure
and in the  need of the assistance of  a powerful Man-Made
coalition  the Man is.

     It follows that The Most Powerful Man  ---   who  has
been made in  the  image  of  insecure domineering Men, by
them  ---

     will  be  Angry and Insecure;  needing the help of  a
coalition of such powerful Men ---

     who have defined "evil" in terms of not-conforming to
the  Will  of their Angry God,

     who has been projected up into the heavens with their
own:

     anger,   domineering  tendencies,   and  need  for  a
coalition   of  supporters  ---

     to  eliminate evil,  by eliminating evil people,  who
are creative-non-conformists.

     If  the  above does not make sense,  that should  NOT
come as a supprise.

     Domineering  Men rarely make sense in any  reasonable
way  as they are rationalizing how they feel and  "think".

     The  above irrational rambling reveals  some  of  the
patterns of  "thought"   of  domineering "God talkers" who
conceive and/or define evil in ways which make it easy for
them to be led by The Myth of Redemptive Violence in their
efforts  to  eliminate evil-people who  are  perceived  as
threatening their ability to be in-control.

     It  is  helpful  to  engage  in  communal  practices,
"rituals",   which clarify what steps need to be taken  to
understand, transcend and subvert "The Domination System",
"The   Myth   of  Redemptive   Violence",    "Collusions",
addictions,         codependent-supporters,         "Power
Concentrationsn", etc.

     It  is not helpful to focus upon communal  practices,
"rituals"  which are Not-Clear-About what steps need to be
taken to understand, transcend and subvert "The Domination
System", "The Myth of Redemptive Violence",  "Collusions",
addictions,   codependent-supporters,    "Power Concentra-
tions",  etc.    ---  and in fact may  empower domineering
people  to  play  their power-play-games through  lack  of
clarity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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