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This is http://www.essayz.com/b0303251.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %PUBLIC PRAYER PROBLEMATIC CONSIDER EXPECTATION+030325 %COERCIVE DEMANDS TACIT RELIGIOUS COMMUNITY HONEST+030325 %ACCEPT REJECT AFFIRM DENIAL SECRECY PRIVACY SINNER 030325 Public prayer duties often entail problematic considerations. What is one to do when asked to offer public prayers which are EXPECTED to be offered in demonstration of spiritual beliefs which one cannot oneself accept with personal integrity? The EXPECTATIONS may be quite COERCIVE! One's own religious community may not tolerate any reasonable departure from the tacitly prescribed assumptions in the EXPECTED form of prayer --- and may at least tacitly reject anyone who fails to fulfill the tacit expectations. How are we to regard religious communities that cannot with integrity accept into open and honest dialogue any healthy people who cannot with personal integrity affirm the coercive EXPECTATIONS of the religious community? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================