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Fundamentals Revisited

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 outcomes unreasonable. Why isn't it more fundamental to believe that good faith produces good reason, while bad faith leads to poor reason? with poor, unredemptive outcomes, ghettos of mystically terrified and terrifying despair and anarchy of polarized distrusts leading toward more ballistically active hatreds. Why would any messiah worth the title teach otherwise? Why isn't this fundamental to Christianity? Or, maybe it is but we have our language backward languaged. Politically and economically cooperative and multiculturally inclusive Christians are hard working good faith fundamental Basic Messianic Christians. And, the pseudo-fundamentalist more rabid Evangelicals are exercising their radically unreasonable absence of good 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 the 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 supremacist disdain for other religions and cultures, and even the climate pathologies incumbent upon their own grandchildren, 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, all that Popery, alien costumed identities and proclivities and wisdom truths of good faith co-arising integrative becoming. If good faith without good regeneratively becoming works is radically dead, then well-reasoned, healthy co-empathic trusting faith is fundamental to Earth's multiculturing good faith systems, like fertile seeds and eggs growing into adult polypathic nature-spirits reaching out for multiculturally permacultural maturity with better multiculturally enriching opportunities with way less dominant monocultural risks of fundamentally hypocritical supremacists, claiming to worship God as something other then their own WinLose, LeftBrain Dominant, EgoPolitical 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 Landscape Justice for CoOperative Organic Networks of Peace. Not so much Condemning Patriarchally-Dominant AngloGods expecting worship, and more Nurturing Matriarchally-Nutritional Flow MultiCulturals co-arising cooperative ecopolitical health and domestic security as Wisdom with TransMillennial Beauty.

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Date: 12/1/2016 7:01:00 AM
Hi Gerald. Wow, quite a lot there. Very well done, and I agree. Cheers, Doug
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