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Church leaders have often been admonished to pledge to work for "the Peace, Unity and
Purity" of the Church which they are to serve and lead.  This pledge creates Tragic-
Alienative-Conflicts because:

 1. Diverse-people have diverse-priorities as regards their conceptions of the most-
    important: Doctrines, Ideals, Values, Principles, Virtues, Assumption, Attitudes, 
    Beliefs, etc.  The diverse-people will be in conflict over what is the essence 
    of that which is to be present when only that which is Absolutely-Essential --  
    is Absolutely-the-only-thing-Left - - - After-the-Purification-Process!

 2. People have rarely been trained in how to help each other to Mitigate-their-Own-
    Alienative-Conflicts - - - - - created by the call for Purification-Processes.

 3. People have rarely been trained in how to recognize the essence of Personal-and-
    Communal Integrities and Integration-Processes - - - apart from calls for Standard-
    Forms of:   Belief, Rituals, Assumptions, Behaviors and Traditions.

 4. People have rarely been trained in how to make Coherent-Affirmations-Of and True-
    Authentic-Demonstrations-Of  Sustainable-Robust-Balanced-and-Mutually-Complementary
    CLUSTERS of: Doctrines, Ideals, Values, Principles, Virtues, Assumption, Attitudes, 
    Beliefs, etc.  In the face of a call for Purity - - - how can one make such a 
    Coherent-Affirmation-of-a-Mixture - - - which is not a Pure-Elementary-Reality?

 5. The ways of Shalom-in-Peace are Many-Ways; not just One-Standard-Way-of-Conformity.

 6. How can we build-and-maintain Communal-Sanctuaries for All-Different-People to be
    Together-In-Shalom - - - - Engaged in Open-and-Honest-Dialogues about Mitigating-
    Their-Own-Alienative-Conflicts - - - if there is FIRST a focus upon some kind of 
    special kind of superior "purity" - - -  which entails excluding-diversity.

 7. Again: Purification which leads to Purity is the process of removing and rejecting
    that which is "different" from contaminating that which is "proper", "superior",
    "conformed" - - - the excluded people will be excommunicated, alienated, angry,
    resentful - - - NOT-BEING-TOGETHER IN-SHALOM.

To the extent that each person has an authentic well integrated vision of Being-
Together-in-Shalom's-Many-Mutually-Complementary-Different-Ways - - - the person can 
work to facilitate others in moving from where they are, into being Well-Together in 
Shalom's-Many-Mutually-Complementary-Ways - - - - without conformity to any conception 
of some Superior-Form-of-Purity in Separating-Different-People-From-Each-Other into 
Segregation.

Visions of Being-Together-In-Shalom-Many-Different-Ways will not be discerned nor 
moved into by people who are clinging to the Life-Styles of Domineering-Bullies who 
know what is the One-and-Only-Right-Destination with only One-and-Only-Right-Path to 
that One-and-Only-Right-Destination.

People who are preoccupied with Peace, Unity and Purity - - - are likely to find much 
in common with people who honor the Life-Styles of Domineering-Bullies who seek to 
Be-In-Control of getting people to be Peacefully-Submissive In-Conformity to some 
form of Purity which eliminates a great deal of diversity, authenticity and integrity.