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

4 Maccabees 7

1 The reasoning of our father Eleazar, like a first-rate pilot, steering the vessel of piety in the sea of passions,2 and flouted by the threats of the tyrant, and overwhelmed with…

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

4 Maccabees 6

1 When Eleazar had in this manner answered the exhortations of the tyrant, the spearbearers came up, and rudely haled Eleazar to the instruments of torture. 2 And first, they stripped the old…

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

4 Maccabees 5

1 The tyrant Antiochus, therefore, sitting in public state with his assessors upon a certain lofty place, with his armed troops standing in a circle around him, 2 commanded his spearbearers to seize…

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

4 Maccabees 4

1 For a certain man named Simon, who was in opposition to Onias, who once held the high priesthood for life, and was an honorable and good man, after slandering him…

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

4 Maccabees 3

1 The argument is exceedingly ridiculous: for reasoning does not appear to bear sway over its own affections, but over those of the body,2 in such a way as that any one…

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

4 Maccabees 2

1 And what wonder? if the lusts of the soul, after participation with what is beautiful, are frustrated, 2 on this ground, therefore, the temperate Joseph is praised in that by reasoning, he…

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

4 Maccabees 1

The Fourth Book of the Maccabees appears in an appendix to the Greek Septuagint. It is considered to be apocrypha by most church traditions. It is preserved here for its supplementary…

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

2 Esdras 16

1 Woe to you, Babylon, and Asia! woe to you, Egypt, and Syria! 2 Gird up yourselves with sackcloth and garments of hair, and bewail your children, and lament; for your destruction is…

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

2 Esdras 15

1 Behold, speak you in the ears of my people the words of prophecy, which I will put in your mouth, says the Lord:2 and cause you them to be written in…

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

2 Esdras 14

1 And it came to pass upon the third day, I sat under an oak, and, behold, there came a voice out of a bush near me, and said, Esdras, Esdras. 2 And…