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 Corinthians 3

1 Brothers, I couldn’t speak to you as to spiritual, but as to fleshly, as to babies in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for you weren’t yet ready.…

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

1 Corinthians 2

1 When I came to you, brothers, I didn’t come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. 2 For I determined not to know anything among…

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

1 Corinthians 1

1 Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and our brother Sosthenes, 2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in…

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

Romans 16

1 I commend to you Phoebe, our sister, who is a servant* of the assembly that is at Cenchreae, 2 that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints,…

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

Romans 15

1 Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good,…

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

Romans 14

1 Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.2 One man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.3 Don’t let…

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

Romans 13

1 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.2 Therefore he who resists the…

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

Romans 12

1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.2 Don’t be conformed to this…

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

Romans 11

1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God didn’t reject his…

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

Romans 10

1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not…