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This-essay is a7908051.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %RELIGIOUS COLLUSION SUPPORT CONSCIENCE PRAYER+790805 %HYMNS SERMONS SUNDAY SCHOOL WORSHIP+790805 %RITUAL TRADITIONS 790805 Collusions are supported in many respectable ways. Their games of mutual self deception are woven into the fabric of life---for their "truths" are of ultimate concern to the participants in the collusions. Thus all possible means are brought to bear upon sustaining collusions. Religious institutions have and support collusions. The collusive society weaves the essence of its collusions into the conscience of the young. The basic presuppositions of its collusions are cross woven into the prayers and hymns of churches. Sermons and Sunday School lessons re-enforce the perspectives which are supportive of religious collusions. The rituals of worship involve the thoughtless recitation of collusive formulas of response. Calls for repentance are often calls to those who are on the verge of escaping from religious collusions, calls to return to enthusiastic support of collusions---else face excommunication. Religious revivals often involve the re-enforcement of the religious sub-culture's collusions---and the socialization of converts into the sub-culture's collusions. Collusions are prevalent because they are "effective" coping mechanisms. Through collusions a sub-culture develops consensual ways of coping and agreement about how effective the results of the coping is. Values are chosen which affirm the goodness of the collusive "truths". The values, truths, techniques, traditions, philosophy, theology, institutions, and biases of a collusion "hang together". They have an appearance of integrity which is real to collusion participants. The participants are successful by the criteria of the collusion. By what criteria may participants in a collusion come to recognize that they are participants in a collusion? In self-defense collusions inhibit participants' freedoms of communication. Participants are not fully free to express their perceptions, visions, emotions, opinions, desires, doubts, fears, etc. Participants are not fully free to be in dialogue with those who are critical of the sub-culture which embodies the collusion. Those who insist upon exercising their freedoms of communication are excommunicated by participants in a collusion---for through uninhibited communication the games of mutual self deception will be illumined and so exposed to view. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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