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This title, Audacity of Democracy, is primarily inspired by Senator Barack Obama's  pre-election book with this political and constitutional empowering theme, and similar title: The Audacity of [Healthy Democratic] Hope.

Are you, or have you ever been, a Trumpist? Asks the Restorative Justice Committee inviting an open discussion with Christian evangelicals about their new green global loyalties And how this anticipation of restoring justice through green/blue climates and unred-undominating cultures of peace has been influenced, or not, by EarthPatriotic repentance. In hindsight, said a representative of the StraightWhiteMale Clergy Association, I first began reflecting on, "Who is my social capital competitiveness willing to sacrifice, to actively or passively bully, shun, ignore, disempower, leave behind as a 'loser'" So I could more clearly emerge among my monoculturing peers as an orthodox redmeat 'winner' a God of Retributive Justice emulator, judge, blamer and shamer, violent miscommunicator, win/lose evolutionist of a discontinuously transcendent slowly degenerating undivine EarthView. Willing to sacrifice and capitalistically bully Earth Her sacred Self, in my shunned silent closet focusing on a rapturous Heavenly climax after the straight white Father's great self-righteous rapacious red rage. Which is something rather punishingly different and anxiety reproducing as compared to anticipating a green EarthBound Rapture catalyzed by healthy democratic empowering and cooperatively enlightening restoration of ego/eco-therapeutic EarthJustice. What, of your own potential integrity, internal multicultural interests and faith-filled curiosities, is your current internal monocultural win/lose efficiency for hoarding currencies of social success markers, such as "annual six figure income"? I'm not sure I understand your question. Is our household income over $100,000? Am I a faithful federal military-industrialized taxpayer? Yes, of course. What and whom are you willing to leave behind? How do your faith communities shut out awareness of other green restorative currencies for success, such as integrity, multicultural, multigenerational neighborhood social synergy, win/win commitments to inclusive consciousness, to transparent authenticity, to vulnerability willing to risk personal honesty about closeted red deviancy, feelings of undemocratic evangelical supremacy? I'm hoping those are rhetorical questions? Oh ye of little green faith inadequate to anticipate opportunity to more deeply learn who we are becoming as an interfaith multicultural health wealthy family, a global neighborhood communion, a diverse mutually absorbing ultra-nonviolet community free of dreaming up more red fear and blue/green free for transparent cooperative curiosity and win/win co-empowerment and holistic open systemic co-enlightenment. Now who's bullying and overpowering and not effectively communicating so much as competitively evangelizing? Who and what do your religious dogmas exclude from grace that your spiritual and natural cultural interests, your attractions and anxieties would include as stretch goals for better health communication which includes respectful listening more and disrespectful preaching less? If you wouldn't mind, could we turn your question around? How are eco-political you, and how have we forever audaciously become, MultiCultural Therapeutic Communicators?

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