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

2 Esdras 3

1 In the thirties year after the ruin of the city, I Salathiel (also called Esdras) was in Babylon, and lay troubled upon my bed, and my thoughts came up over…

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

2 Esdras 2

1 The Lord says, I brought this people out of bondage, and I gave them my commandments by my servants the prophets; whom they would not hear, but set my counsels…

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

2 Esdras 1

The Second Book of Esdras is included in the Slavonic Bible as 3 Esdras, but is not found in the Greek Septuagint. It is included in the Appendix to the Latin Vulgate…

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

3 Maccabees 7

1 King Ptolemy Philopator to the commanders throughout Egypt, and to all who are set over affairs, joy and strength. 2 We, too, and our children are well; and God has directed our…

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

3 Maccabees 5

1 And Eleazar, an illustrious priest of the country, who had attained to length of days, and whose life had been adorned with virtue, caused the elders who were around him…

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

3 Maccabees 5

1 Then he called Hermon, who had charge of the elephants. Full of rage, altogether fixed in his furious design,2 he commanded him, with a quantity of unmixed wine and handfuls of…

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

3 Maccabees 4

1 Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to show itself openly. 2 The Jews suffered great…

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

3 Maccabees 3

1 On discovering this, so incensed was the wicked king, that he no longer confined his rage to the Jews in Alexandria. Laying his hand more heavily upon those who lived…

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

3 Maccabees 2

1 Now was it that the high priest Simon bowed his knees near the holy place, and spread out his hands in reverent form, and uttered the following supplication: 2 O Lord, Lord,…

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

3 Maccabees 1

The Third Book of the Maccabees is recognized as Deuterocanonical Scripture by the Greek Orthodox and Russian Orthodox Churches. It is considered to be apocrypha by most other church traditions. 1…