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This-essay is a8502092.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 ========================================================== %PRAYER VS COERCION 850209 Genuine prayer involves no coercion, nor wish for coercion. Genuine prayer is a search for personal and communal integrity. Coercion generates rebellion and alienation which lead to disintegration of persons and communities. People who pray genuinely do not try to coerce others to pray, for they know it is impossible to coerce others to pray with integrity. Genuine prayer is a search for personal and communal integrity. Coercion can not stop that search. People who are the victims of coercion can continue to find ways of transcending the coercion, they can pray. It is impossible to prevent prayer because it is the most basic of human activities. To be human is to search for personal and communal integrity, to pray. Prayer is manifested in many ways. The manifestations are not prayer. To present the manifestations is not to pray. To coerce people to present the manifestations of prayer is not to lead them in prayer. One can not pray without personal integrity; thus manifestations of prayer produced under coercion to pray pass, that we may be more free to pray genuinely with honest manifestations. The primary manifestation of genuine prayer is the integration of persons and communities. Thus coercive efforts to get people to pray are not prayer. No organization of any kind can successfully require or prohibit true prayer which is the genuine search for personal and communal integrity. Such efforts are misguided and futile whether undertaken by religious leaders, politicians, businessmen, military leaders, educators, or whatever. Efforts to legitimize such efforts are also misguided and futile. People who seek recognition for their manifestations of prayer need to pray genuinely in search of personal and communal integrity. They are alienated and in need of integration into a community with the integrity to pray for their integration. The same is true of people who seek to repress the manifestations of genuine prayer. Coercion is not effective. (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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