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This-essay is a7910131.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 ========================================================== %KINDS OF SIN 791013 Associated with each positive value which is affirmed without qualification---there is a kind of sin. Sin is the human condition of personal alienation. Alienation originates in the unqualified affirmation of positive values by people who are insensitive to the complementary values which are compromised by their unqualified affirmations of their most basic values. Ultimate concern for certain values blinds people the importance of the corresponding complementary values. Because people can not serve competing complementary values as competing Gods, they choose a self-consistent set of values to idolize. By affirming self consistency as one of their self-consistent set of ultimate values---they justify the exclusion of inconsistent complementary values, and so alienate those people who are incarnations of those complementary values. In fact, the excommunication of those complementary people is regarded as a valuable means to the affirmation of both the values which are idolized, and excommunication as an ultimate means. Thus, the values which are idolized generate their kinds of sin in the personal alienation between those persons who idolize them and those persons who do not idolize them. Such alienation can not be transcended in terms of the competing complementary values. None of the persons who idolize such alienative values can be the channel for the power of Love to bring about reconciliation, for they are the incarnation of the idolized values which occasion the various kinds of sin. Only those people who are the incarnation of Love can serve as the suffering servants who promote reconciliation, rather than the idolization of positive values. Such lovers are more concerned with helping people transcend alienation---than with perpetuating any self consistent set of values. Reconciliation is blocked by people who regard sin as nonconformity to approved life styles. Conformists do not have the basis for promoting reconciliation, for they can not be reconciled to nonconformists---and nonconformists can not be reconciled to conformists because of conformists' demands. Conformists who try to save nonconformists from sin---alienate the nonconformists and so occasion the kinds of sin from which the conformists are trying to save the nonconformists. Conformists include those people who are nonconformists for the purpose of achieving acceptance and affirmation from like nonconformists. They also promote their peculiar kinds of sin. (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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