BOOK TITLE — MOVEMENT POLITICS AND RELIGION WHILE BEING EVANGELICAL ABOUT NATION BUILDING THAT PLATO AND ABRAHAM STARTED--NIEBUHR-RORTY-CHARDIN AND COMPLEXITY CONSCIOUSNESS ARE CONSIDERED IN NATION BUILDING BEYOND LOCAL TRIBALISMS

1. Reinhold Niebuhr's neo-orthodoxy as nation building with movement sensitivity in the Protestant movement is a set of propositions and not just love babble. In West Texas the wind pumps the water and the cows cut wood but water is over pumped and wind now best produces electricity. Texas Tech in Lubbock needs more movement history, philosophy and co-ops to move citizenship education beyond football and technics.

2. Myth for Niebuhr is not just special widening of percepts as Jung, Whitehead and Buddha but is our complex conscious mind holding complex interests in a peace and consequences dialectic system which we may call democracy the goal being to create a culture of efficiency balanced by sufficiency in creating quality education for all children. Early courses in philosophy is a human right to counter the culture biases of family and local tribal truth systems.

3. Niebuhr's critical realism focuses on univocal creation and our later human creativity, minus privileged access to archetypes that reveal God. Niebuhrian myths do not reveal God behind metaphor as is so with Spong, Crossan and Borg, but criticizes the real issues of nation building with Plato and Abraham.

4. Alain de Botton sees efficient mechanical causation as important but sufficiency causes need adding as in Hume's emotive-sympathy education concerning deep culture movements in history — technology is not enough. Richard Rorty's reading of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' is better than Texas preachers, love babble and apolitical science math curriculums. De Botton's 'agape café' claims we can move deeper to a sufficient society over mechanical efficiency and sports education.

5. What is sufficient education for the young? Mark Twain's America and J.W. Krutch's "Great Chain of Life" can help. Krutch focuses on animal heroics along with our claim to truth's beyond science, math and religious sayings. Rorty, like de Tocqueville, values conversational dialectics to help aggregate public policies---this means education focused on real possibilities with John Dewey. Rorty, as Jesus, uses irony in stating complex goals that are value added involving new space and time tested propositions.

6. De Botton and Rorty are for common-sense dealing with gravity, birth control pills, atoms, guns and wealth re-distribution---clearly the soils, moderate climate and water were not created by capitalism. Capitalists did plow up the west creating the 'dust bowl' after killing the buffalo and Comanche Indians. 12.

7. Common sense means conversation with neighbors to formulate public policy for land, water, energy, education, courts and elections. Niebuhr was for deep suspicion of pride and ego in utopian politics concerning sect, class, gender, tribe, race and national security---his suspicion was not so extreme as Camus in matters of slippery slope propositions inside of democratic time-framed elections. FDR, focused on HEW - housing education and welfare as the Social Gospel for basic needs met. Even Richard Nixon proposed an economic floor under families.

8. Professor Thomas Noble once taught at Texas Tech---he is now at Notre Dame---his focus on great world movements form Athens to the present could help us avoid epileptic fits of salvation---William James saw that these fits of salvation are not all bad as they come at a time when the young realize, on their own, that the ego-culture has left out too much. Youth culture fantasia can be partly cured by serious historical courses on world movements that are not found in the movies.

9. Common sense may need help from 'wall propaganda' as Epicurus claimed, as well as in churches and the de Botton agape café. The Japanese use art and steady signs to remind them that their islands are in the earthquake zone and the other quakes that have come to the islands include various Buddhist invaders with a developed Confucian ego from "Mother China" as well as from Western colonial hegemon states.

10. Our religious problem is nation building — this is so because we need both nation building and institutions like the church-unchurch to critique the nation when it gets too certain that it is a chosen nation-holding such a complex dual consciousness (nation and church-unchurch critic of the state) is uniquely possible for conscious human beings. The Cold War (1950 to 2000) demonstrated our crisis when anxious capitalists saw the chance to use religion as national ideology. This madness allowed the nation to retribalize as a whole culture dissolving all internal doubts in behalf of a limitless Pentagon budget.

John Fielden

MY BOOK IS READY TO DIGITIZE, SLIGHTLY EDIT AND PRINT---THE BOOK TITLE ANNOUNCES A BROAD THESIS THAT RELIGION IS ABOUT NATION BUILDING---SOME ESSAYS ARGUE WITH MODERNS SUCH AS FAREED ZAKARIA---WHO WAS TRANSPLANTED TO COMPLEX NATION BUILDING IN AMERICA FROM COMPLEX TRIBALISM IN INDIA.

1. Arguments may repeat in contexts---each essay has a title that is hopefully worked into the body of the essay. The essay titles may be altered or merely left to announce content.

2. A page for complex definitional issues may include Reinhold Niebuhr's view of univocal-creation and conflicts of interest within the created---another view of the univocal creation is Plato's Demiurgos that predicts a dual causative within the created world.

3. Protestantism will variously be defined as protesting theocracy and military states.

4. The Christian, Paul, will be discussed along with Jesus, as proposing nation building in a dual polity (church and state) context where 'church' includes secular propositions such as the American New Deal and the Ford Foundations Hutchins Center in Santa Barbara discussing various studies of democratic institutions.

5. Great dramas in some essay topics include the world naval empires of the Spanish and English and the Cold War of the twentieth century featuring the United States being united in fear of Communism.

6. The Industrial Revolution in the cotton mills of 19 century England involves protesting churches such as the Quakers, Methodists, Presbyterians, Unitarians and the unique English Parliament.

7. The drama of German unity, up to the present crisis of a European Union and NATO, is the picture of modern powerful tribes becoming a nation with a Parliament serving to give political parties responsible demonstration-time-in-power. Bonhoeffer and Niebuhr met at Union Theological School in N.Y to discuss complex nation building in the U.S and Germany — with the extremes of race and sect treated as long besetting problems for nation building in both cases.

8. Rome's pretense to be a nation and also a theocracy is given some space via Augustine and Constantine.

John R. Fielden 480-894-6745 2004 E. Vaughn St. Tempe, Az. 85283

CHOICES — CHOICES — STAYING OFF THE STREET AND OUT OF JAIL IS NOT THAT SIMPLE — CHOOSING A TRIBE OVER A NATION HAS TEMPTED SOME OF US — TRIBES HAVE CHIEFS WHO WATCH THE BORDERS AT A PRICE TO ALL OF US.

1. Pericles tried to unify Athens by culture sharing and joining the Delian League....