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If it is a premise of fundamentalists, whether Christian or Islamic or Devil Worshipers, that Reason is bad, faith is good, what could anyone reasonably say that could not be unfaithful to good? However, as I recall, there is that oft-quoted Christian maxim of Paul the Apostle: faith without works is dead. So there is good faith, which works, and bad faith, which doesn't. So, if reason is bad and good faith is discerned through good works, then good work could only be unreasonable. Yet I so doubt that a Carpenter from Nazareth, or anyone who is trying to build anything positive with cooperative and healthy intent, would consider good healthy outcomes unreasonable. Why isn't it more fundamental to believe that good faith produces good reason, while bad faith leads to unhealthy reasons? with poor, unredeeming outcomes, judgmental ghettos of terrified and terrifying despair and anarchy of polarized distrusts leading toward more ballistically reactive warpaths than mystically active peacepaths. Why would any Messiah worth the title teach otherwise? Why isn't this fundamental to Prince of Peace Christianity? Or, maybe it is but we have our RightWing language backward irreligiously radical. Politically and economically cooperative communion and multiculturally inclusive Christians are hard working good faith fundamental Basic Bodhisattva Christians. And, the pseudo-fundamentalist more rabid Evangelicals are exercising their radically unreasonable absence of healthy co-messianic faith, while hypocritically pretending to be spiritual supremacists, with a direct line to the jealously monotheistic YHWH of Abraham. You know, the one who heard the One Whose Name We Dare Not Speak tell him to cut his son's throat, then burn his still-warm body, as a world-redemptive act, maybe, or just a snack, who knows really? It amazes me about myself and those I love that we have patiently tolerated this about face, from "you will know them by their love" to you will know them by their irreligious disassociation against inter-religious pluralistic health-cultures, and ideologically blind to the climate pathologies incumbent upon their own grandchildren's chances of thrival, their self-congratulatory antipathy for cooperative political and economic meta-beliefs, and yet coincidental patriarchal condemnations of anything less than cooperative political and psychological and economic familial expectations, their actively paranoid mistrust of other racial and language and most especially transgender characteristics, body-pleasing compassions, alien costumed identities and neurodiverse proclivities Disconnected from Holy Mother NatureSpirit indigenous wisdom truths of healthy polyculturing faith co-arising integrative mind-passion/body-pleasures. If good faith without healthy regenerative works is radically dead, then well-reasoned, wealthy neurodiverse co-empathic trusting faith is fundamental to Earth's multiculturing good-humored feeling systems, like fertile seeds and happy eggs growing into adult polypathic nature-spirits reaching out for religiously polycultural maturity with better multiculturally enriching opportunities with way less dominant monocultural risks of fundamentally hypocritical anthro-supremacists, claiming to worship God as something other than their own WinLose, LeftBrain Dominant, EgoPolitical IrReligiously Wrong MonoTheistic Image. The fundamentals of co-redemptive love, not jealous declamations of condemnation, begin with co-operative creation, co-arising EarthTribe's Fertile Earth Climate Rights of Procreative PolyPathic Freedoms of Global EarthJustice for CoOperative Organic Networks of Peace. Not so much condemning Patriarchally-Dominant AnthroGods expecting ChosenPeople radically exclusive salvation.
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