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The sense that the way things happen to be is not the way they are ultimately supposed to be, and that the present order of things contradicts a cosmic sense of normative order or justice, motivates the way of right action. This way of being religious looks for disclosure of hte way things are supposed to be, patterns of right action and behavior (both social and individual), criteria for assessing current practice, directives for action in current circumstances, clues for overcoming one's own failures, and persons who model the way of right action--as well as rationales for right action as a means to at-onement with ultimate reality. |