Counting Green Sheep
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Inspired by, and intended to be in appreciative dialogue with, Steve King, as quoted in David Drum's "Peace Talks: The Good News of Jesus in a Donkey Elephant War." p. 82
"Our ultimate identity is not as Elephants or Donkeys but sheep who belong to the utmost King, Jesus Christ. Our supreme citizenship is the kingdom of heaven, and we bring its' values into all our political engagements for the glory of The King of all kings!"
[I do wonder, quietly, within my compassion therapy brackets, if Steve King images Earth's Prince of Peace as the utmost King of all triumphalistic evangelical omnipotent kings, rather than suffering servant messianic Son of Man, because of his white patriarchally privileged last name?]
Our current political identity
is not exclusively red conservative
or blue liberal atheist/humanist
We are also
pissed off sheep
who have gone astray
of richly green domesticated economies,
instead red enslaved,
blue judiciously penned
incorporated property
belonging to the utmost
OmniPotentating Jehovah
Descending from a long
royalist
blue blood-hierarchy
of Straight White Male
red-blooded religious
and political
and economic privilege.
Our anti-PatriarchalCapitalist anger
is our potential bipartisan win/win
supreme civil citizenship
delivering us from this
Sky Is Falling Kingdom
of win/lose zero-sum
nationalistic segregated purgatory
And, we bring our angry
fearful,
anxious
depressed bicameral values
into all our cisbinary/transbinary political
EitherOr/BothAnd
economic
religious
reconnecting
neuro-sensory co-passionate engagements
For the woke glory
of Earth's Green
SabbathQueen
of polyculturally robust
HeavenLight
inviting eweing/ram
yintegral-yang
Co-binary
co-governing
co-operative
co-invested
co-passionate
ego/ecosystemic win/win
co-enlightened bipartisan empowerment.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2022
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