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 %RELIGIONS IDOLATRY SACRIFICES BELIEVERS POWER GOD 041213
 %TRUE LOVERS ACTIONS SPEAK TRUTH AFFIRM PRIORITIES 041213
 %ESSENTIAL FOUNDATIONS PERSONAL COMMUNAL INTEGRITY 041213
   %META ULTIMATE CONCERNS WORDS SAYINGS SCRIPTURES 041213
 %SEXUAL DOMINATION SYSTEMS SLAVERY SEGREGATION ALL 041213
 %REJECT ACCEPTANCE HOSPITALITY CIVILITY COOPERATED 041213

     Each  religion  is  characterized  by what its "true
believers"  affirm most powerfully by their actions;  and
only secondarily  by what its "true-believer"  affirm  by
their teachings, doctrines, rituals, scriptures, etc.

     "Actions speak louder than words."

     "In-actions speak louder than words".

     What-is-absent can be important that what is present.

     Pure-Capitalists affirm  by their actions  and  words
that   "The   Good-Life"    is   characterized   by  their
"successfully":

     1.  Accumulating  concentrations of:  things,  money,
possessions,   investments,   tools,  weapons,   luxuries,
servants, achievements, appearances, etc.

     2.  Maintaining their own individual freedoms to "do-
their-own-thing"   without  many,  if  any:   limitations,
restraints, boundaries, criticisms.

     3.  Dominating less successful people,  proving  how
"good" their are by their successes and accumulations.

     4.  Demonstrating their superiority, arrogance, self-
righteousness,  hubris,   and command over  all essential-
truths which are simple and absolute.

     5.  Demonstrating   that   "good-people"    can   act
unilaterally with impunity.

     6.  That  personal-goodness can exist without  regard
for either personal-integrity or communal-integrity.

     7.  Sacrifice  both personal-integrity and  communal-
integrity while properly-accumulating more: things, money,
possessions,   investments,   tools,   weapons,  luxuries,
servants, achievements, appearances, pretensions, etc.

     IDOLATRY   is  characterized  as  much  by  what   is
neglected,  ignored,  sacrificed and forgotten ---  as  by
what  is  tenaciously  kept as the  center  of  attention,
concerns, affirmations, desires, hopes, and expectations.

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