Themes: Atonement / washing away/ dreams and visions/ the politics of love

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Today, when we hear the word “politics” most likely we cringe. The word has taken on severe connotations  --a thirst for prestige, a thirst for revenge, a thirst for power, a tangled system of government, taxes, corruption, agendas, and ladders to climb on and people to step on and over to get there.

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But if you look at the very “first” dictionary definition of “politics,” you’ll find it means, “social relations” involving authority or power, the relations between people or ideas, human social relationships.

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Unlike the early Greek meaning, which specifically referred to “affairs of the state or city,” today, “poli…