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     Much has been made of and said about "responsibility"
and about "punishments" for failure to be "responsible".

     The meaning of the word "responsibility" is rooted in
the  meanings  of   words  like:   "respond",  "response",
"responsive", and answerable".

     In the name of "justice" JUST WHO is  to respond,  be
responsive,   and be answerable?   Of course it should the
the  one who is/was "responsible".   But there is the rub.
Suppose it is not just "one" person?   Suppose it is not a
simple  matter to identify all of the responsible  "ones"?
Suppose it is a large fraction of the Community-as-a-Whole
that  has  acted in Alienative-Ways that can  be  properly
described by the following words:

     1.  Indifferently?
     2.  Insensitively?
     3.  Callously?
     4.  Contentiously?
     5.  Arrogantly?
     6.  Pretentiously?
     7.  Unilaterally?
     8.  Concentrating-Power?
     9.  Concentrating-Wealth?
    10.  Polarizing?
    11.  Destructively?
    12.  Fragmentively?
    13.  Prejudicially?
    14.  Ignorantly?
    15.  Unjustly?
    16.  Selfishly?
    17.  Violently?
    18.  Domineeringly?
    19.  Imperially?
    20.  Without-Reverence?

     Can a community As-a-Whole be irresponsible?

     Can a community As-a-Whole act irresponsibly?

     Can a community As-a-Whole act responsibly?

     Can a community As-a-Whole be responsible?

     Can a community As-a-Whole be HELD responsible?

                          By WHOM?

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     Has any ONE been appointed to HOLD a Community as
     ONE-WHOLE RESPONSIBLE.  A KING?  A QUEEN? A LORD?

     Has GOD appointed any ONE to hold a Community as
     ONE-WHOLE RESPONSIBLE.

     Can  GOD  do  that,  while keeping STATE out  of  the
affairs of GOD's CHURCH?

     Can GOD do that, while keeping HIS CHURCH out of  the
affairs of GOD's STATE?

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     There   seem  to  be  some  un-resolved   ideological
conflicts here in this ideological place.

     Human  thought  processes have not  yet  become  very
coherent = well-integrated in regards to;

     1.  Assumptions made.
     2.  Assumptions not-articulated.
     3.  Beginning-Attitudes.
     4.  Covert ideals, values, hopes, aspirations.
     5.  Absolutes not-examined.
     6.  Tacit Frames-of-Reference.
     7.  Natural and Un-Natural Consequences.
     8.  Laws-of-Nature.
     9.  Cosmic-Realities.
    10.  Unchangeable Accurate-Descriptive-LAWS-of-NATURE.

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     Might  there  be  some  fundamental  inadequacies  in
humans' theological languages and semantic structures?

     Might   there  be  some  dysfunctional   aspects   in
theological languages and semantic structures?

     Might theologians engage in irresponsible God-Talk?

     Might  it  be Irresponsible to  Cast-Questions  about
Ultimate-Concerns-and-Responsibilities into the Frame-Work
An-Ultimate-Power who is seen to act Like-A-Human?

     Might  it be Irresponsible to Create-GOD in the Image
of  a  Single-Dominant-MAN  in  the absence  of  LOVE  and
KINDNESS?   Where is God's Wife?

     Might  it  be  Irresponsible  to  Create-GOD  without
respect  for  the  Accurately-Descriptive   LAWS-OF-NATURE
which  are not changing in the midst of  Cosmic-Chaos  and
Cosmic-Entropy?

     Who is to say?

     Be Graciously Together within the many ways of Shalom

                         (c) 2006 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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