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

Philippians 2

1 If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,2 make my joy full by being…

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

Philippians 1

1 Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers* and servants:† 2 Grace to you, and peace from God our Father…

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

Ephesians 6

1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: 3 “that it may be well with you, and…

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

Ephesians 5

1 Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for…

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

Ephesians 4

1 I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,2 with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another…

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

Ephesians 3

1 For this cause I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles, 2 if it is so that you have heard of the administration of that grace of…

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

Ephesians 2

1 You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power…

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

Ephesians 1

1 Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and the faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace to you and peace from God…

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

Galatians 6

1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you…

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

Galatians 5

1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. 2 Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if…