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Gospel Rewrites

I think, and sometimes fear, we have two ways, maybe more, to read the four holy gospels, and any sacred scripture, and any regeneration/degeneration story of creative tension, win/win sweet spot future aspirations midst win/lose historic raw spots of past experience. We can read Earth's inspired articulations as a book of spiritually correct answers, removed from complex historical-cultural context in a move toward fundamentally correct creed development for moral and political and economic and ecological correctness. And/or we can listen for Earth's expirations and inspirations, reading and listening to naturally spiritual correcting questions, embedded in universal historical and uniting multicultural content of fundamentally healthy development for resiliently robust climates and cultures, timeless times of spiraling revolutionary win/win ego/eco-logical balance corrections. If we too readily approach sacred scripture for morally correct answers, we are likely to forget divine purpose seeks better, more inclusive, inviting, transparent, vulnerable, courageous and curious health questions.

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