Language is my sacrament

I am a Joshua following monolater who prefers to use an atheistic scientific dialect, because my thoughts on theology, mythology, and science seems to scare most. In hopes for conversation, I’m using this as my journal.

I think they call this deconstructing

I have assumed today’s religious and political leaders are different than the ones who killed past voices for good… Now, I cannot unsee how wrong I have been. Religious Nationalism is exposed as the primary identity of the most vocal white American Evangelical churches. Fox News has replaced Jesus’ teaching…Continue reading “I think they call this deconstructing”

Choice #4 = Mythology: allowing our fight/flight instinct be triggered

1 Peter 4

1 Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 that you no…

Choice #4 = Mythology: allowing our fight/flight instinct be triggered

1 Peter 3

1 In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their…

Choice #4 = Mythology: allowing our fight/flight instinct be triggered

1 Peter 2

1 Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,3 if indeed…

Choice #4 = Mythology: allowing our fight/flight instinct be triggered

1 Peter 1

1 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the chosen ones who are living as foreigners in the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,2 according to the foreknowledge of God…

Choice #4 = Mythology: allowing our fight/flight instinct be triggered

James 5

1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and…

Choice #4 = Mythology: allowing our fight/flight instinct be triggered

James 4

1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t…

Choice #4 = Mythology: allowing our fight/flight instinct be triggered

James 3

1 Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment. 2 For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a…

Choice #4 = Mythology: allowing our fight/flight instinct be triggered

James 2

1 My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality. 2 For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue,* and a…

Choice #4 = Mythology: allowing our fight/flight instinct be triggered

James 1

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are in the Dispersion: Greetings. 2 Count it all joy, my brothers,*when you fall into…

Choice #4 = Mythology: allowing our fight/flight instinct be triggered

Hebrews 13

1 Let brotherly love continue.2 Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for in doing so, some have entertained angels without knowing it.3 Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them,…