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

Jeremiah 1

The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, one of the priests who were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin. Yahweh’s word came to him in the days of…

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

Isaiah 66

1 Yahweh says, “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest? 2 For my hand has made…

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

Isaiah 65

1 “I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not…

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

Isaiah 64

1 Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down, that the mountains might quake at your presence. 2 As when fire kindles the brushwood, and the fire causes…

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

Isaiah 63

1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is…

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

Isaiah 62

1 For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a…

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

Isaiah 61

1 The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to…

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

Isaiah 60

1 “Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you. 2 For, behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise…

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

Isaiah 59

1 Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; nor his ear dull, that it can’t hear. 2 But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins…

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

Isaiah 58

1 “Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily,…