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I originally titled this piece "Faith in Politics".  More than eight hours later, not one person had even bothered to open it up, which is kind of what the piece is about--absence in mainstream faith for empowering public health and wealth policies.  So, I figured maybe some people would still hope to find faith in functioning cooperative economic systems?

Faith in politics is not popular. Other than optimistic civics teachers and elected office holders, faith feels troublesome when mixed with social empowerment over Others. "Others" holds and hides broad diversity: children women people of color prisoners slaves indentured servants pets cattle sheep farms plantations ranches watersheds melting ice caps rising sea levels polluted air worn out topsoil sewage disposal and highway and military systems industrial production and consumption and devolutions... Good faith in power is faithful to power WITH Others, WITH win/win co-aspirations, and ego/eco-active non-ZeroSum hope for health increasing more openly contagious co-integrity. Bad faith in power builds reasons to justify power against and over Others, with win/lose evolutionary ZeroSum assumptions about economic closed entropic-trending systems currently favoring Western white privilege. The faith [belief reason emotional and cognitive intelligence left-brain win/win active hope and right-brain felt love, compassion, integrity, co-empathy] of Messiahs [and Bodhisattva PeaceCorp Warriors, global mustard seed planters, Hiawathas and Renewable Energy (inside and out) Advocates, and Ancient EcoFeminist Wisdom Healers] is rooted in early cooperative intent to push together toward light [integral harmony singing Voices of Other health mutual empowerment happy, inviting climate therapy potential for personal and global integrity]. Good faith in politics seeds active hope for multicultural empowerment, co-passioned love for synergetic health as also true organic wealth. Faith in healthy empowerment is as original [seminal ZeroZone right-brain prominent sacred sacramental integral creative birthing] as our first pilgrimage from EarthMother's womb into this timeless light of healthy passage into interdependent passions yet including autonomous re-creative tension promulgating win/win revolutionary intent. Healthy intent to see with both eyes equally [curiously courageously secularly Left-Either/Or and sacredly Right-Both/And cooperatively win/win nutritionally strategic] To hear both past right-healthed multicultures and future left-wealthed polycultures listening with and then speaking up and out for organic Faith in health-power multipoly-pathic Voices Still wise enough to avoid monopolizing integrity's Light.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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