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

Micah 3

1 I said, “Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice? 2 You who hate the good, and love the…

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

Micah 2

1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 They…

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

Micah 1

1 Yahweh’s* word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. 2 Hear, you peoples, all of…

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

Jonah 4

1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. 2 He prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Please, Yahweh, wasn’t this what I said when I was still in my own country? Therefore…

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

Jonah 3

1 Yahweh’s word came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.” 3 So Jonah arose, and went…

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

Jonah 2

1 Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish’s belly. 2 He said, “I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol* I…

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

Jonah 1

1 Now Yahweh’s* word came to Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.” 3 But Jonah…

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

Obadiah 1

1 The vision of Obadiah. This is what the Lord* Yahweh† says about Edom. We have heard news from Yahweh, and an ambassador is sent among the nations, saying, “Arise, and let’s rise…

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

Amos 9

1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head…

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

Amos 8

1 Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me: behold, a basket of summer fruit. 2 He said, “Amos, what do you see?” I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then Yahweh said to…