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More dialogue between YinCoPassion hugging and tugging AdamYang, from "Cherishing Our World", pp. 48-9, Justice On Earth: People of Faith Working at the Intersections of Race, Class, and the Environment."

YinPassion: Predictions of HellFire and Damnation raptures, of Paradise far away from sinful natural EarthClimates of Despair is not so different from our indigenous ancestors' experience in the U.S.A. 1800s. Robersmith: "This situation is not so different from one that our Universalist ancestors experienced in the 1800s." YinPassion: At the time, much of fundamentalist religious preaching and dualistic nature v spirit theology was focused on hell: the toxic fires and timeless suffering punishing all who do not win/lose fall in capitalistic nationalistic line with a particular patriarchal set of either/or left-brain predative ideals. Robersmith: "At the time, much of Christian preaching and theology was focused on hell: the burning fires and eternal torment that all would suffer if they did not fall in line with a particular set of moral ideals." YinPassion: A few extended ecofeminist families deviantly of good faith and positively relying on win/win love to induce health/wealth behavior, thereby let go of fearing climates of retribution and EarthLife's damnation assumed too weakly insufficient to eliminate unhealthy and unwealthy violent behavior. Robersmith: "Many communities of faith relied on fear to induce righteous behavior, but fear of hellfire and damnation was insufficient to eliminate undesirable behavior." YinPassion: If lose/lose nihilism were an effective human motivator, then sins against Earth and Egos and greedy corporate climate vice would have vanished from the Capitalist-Patriarchal industrial LeftBrain revolutionary monocultural experience. Robersmith: "If it was, sin and vice would have vanished from the American experience." YinPassion: Monocultural pathology did not vanish and yet has not overpowered polycultural Health/Wealth. Robersmith: "It did not and has not." YinPassion: Hosea Ballou, a nineteenth-century positive psychologist who gave us some of our most basic healthy theology and wealthy cooperative ethics, writes in Examination of the Experience of Future EarthRestoring Justice: The prophecy of future resilient rewards and ego/ecotherapies for the inductive meaning people find in loving Earth and underlying compassion, is not only useful, but healthy. Robersmith and Ballou: "Hosea Ballou, a nineteenth-century Universalist who gave us some of our most basic theology and ethics, writes in Examination of Future Retribution:" 'The preaching of future rewards and punishments for the purpose of inducing people to love God and moral virtue, is not only useless, but pernicious.'" YinPassion: All such loving, be it ever so ego healthcare intended, not only amounts to a choice for free speech that Earth and health experience are lovely and worthy of resiliently cooperative life, but, as far as Earth-Democratic Health is believed, serves to attach resilient affections with, for, of these most precious objects, all climate experiences, subjects, sensate living feeling passionate curious courageous Ballou: 'All such preaching, be it ever so well intended, not only amounts to a declaration; that God and moral virtue are, in themselves, unlovely, and unworthy of being loved, but, as far as it is believed, serves to alienate the affections from these most precious objects.' YinPassion: We may illustrate win/win co-responsive Health/Wealth by furnished Scripture memories of grace, nutrition, blessing, kindness, mercy. Ballou: 'We may illustrate this subject by the use of figures furnished in the Scriptures.' YinPassion: Divine truth, living water ways, wine graced life and milk, bread, light, power, sensory passion, fertile soil, beautiful flowers, strong mountains, flowing rivers... Ballou: 'Divine truth, by waters, by wine and milk, by bread, etc.' YinPassion: Should we be offered an immensely resonant reward for cooperatively accepting this nourishment, and should we be healed by cooperative co-investments refusing violent lose/lose climates of mutual divestment, Heaven would be natural for us to suppose, and the prophet who should advocate such win/win proposals does not believe climate pathology is stronger than non-violent and resonant relationships of nutritionally shared compassion in healthcare giving and EarthWealth receiving. Ballou: 'Should we be offered an immense reward for accepting [this nourishment, quenching, satisfying, healthy, resonant, resilience-producing investments], and should we be threatened with severe punishments if we refused them, it would be natural for us to suppose, that the person who should make such proposals... did not believe these things to be of any value in themselves...' YinPassion: Ballou's ecology of unhealth as degeneratively impoverishing calls us to reconsider our EarthTribe cooperative commitments and social democratic values in this climate crisis day and win/win health-potentiating age. Robersmith: "Ballou's theology calls us to consider our commitments and values in this day and age."

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