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God Is Love Is God

A problem with using scripture as a spiritual guide More prominently more fundamentally more evangelically than establishing a relationship with a mentor a teacher a spiritual director facilitator mediator between egocentric LeftBrain dominant reading and ecosystemic RightBrain sacred listening for integrity synergy interdependent nuance healing divinely restorative justice, When we first hear, "God so loved Earth" we naturally conclude such compassion is incompatible with God so loved all of Goddess Earth's living indigenous Tribes regardless of colors like green red yellow brown purple violet ultra-violet, even burnt orange, and black and white which are more about oppositional contrasts of light and melanin than any color shade tone brilliance or dullness of left or right mind. Then, later in the same verse beloved by monoculturing missionaries, we read "Whosoever believes in God's Son will not perish but have eternal life." As if these words also read, "Whosoever does not LeftBrain hear about God's Great Messianic Historical Event will perish and will not have eternal life." Which RightBrain feelers for integrity, listeners and explorers of Win/Lose redemption-committed multicultural mediators like Holy Spirits universal Win/Win lovers, compassionate teachers and healthy resilient ecofeminist leaders can transparently and vulnerably hear as a false negative corollary, An illicit LeftBrain sin of omission inappropriate for a universal EarthLover omnipotent God Made in humane LeftBrain verbal images of judgment Straight White Patriarchally entitled to blame and shame Others for ignorance sin failures of win/win universal principles to remember to keep sacred as Sabbath and Scripture all Golden Rule everyday compassions Both LeftBrain true Facts and RightBrain beautifully interdependent Relationships of Inform/Export-Communic-ation Communion Tran-substantiation Creolization Re-Ligion PolyEmpathic Integrity of individuals' secular thoughts, local and synergetic sacred feelings, global.

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