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

Malachi 1

1 A revelation, Yahweh’s* word to Israel by Malachi. 2 “I have loved you,” says Yahweh. Yet you say, “How have you loved us?” “Wasn’t Esau Jacob’s brother?” says Yahweh, “Yet I loved…

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

Zechariah 14

1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your plunder will be divided within you. 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the…

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

Zechariah 13

1 “In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness. 2 It will come to pass in that day,…

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

Zechariah 12

1 A revelation: Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says: 2 “Behold, I will…

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

Zechariah 11

1 Open your doors, Lebanon, that the fire may devour your cedars. 2 Wail, cypress tree, for the cedar has fallen, because the stately ones are destroyed. Wail, you oaks of Bashan,…

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

Zechariah 10

1 Ask of Yahweh rain in the spring time, Yahweh who makes storm clouds, and he gives rain showers to everyone for the plants in the field. 2 For the teraphim* have spoken…

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

Zechariah 9

1 A revelation. Yahweh’s word is against the land of Hadrach, and will rest upon Damascus; for the eye of man and of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh;…

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

Zechariah 8

1 The word of Yahweh of Armies came to me. 2 Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.” 3 Yahweh…

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

Zechariah 7

1 In the fourth year of king Darius, Yahweh’s word came to Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, the month of Chislev. 2 The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and…

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

Zechariah 6

1 Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of bronze.2 In the first chariot were red…