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

Nehemiah 02

1 In the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, when wine was before him, I picked up the wine, and gave it to the king. Now I…

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

Nehemiah 01

1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the palace, 2 Hanani, one of my brothers, came, he…

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

Ezra 10

1 Now while Ezra prayed and made confession, weeping and casting himself down before God’s house, there was gathered together to him out of Israel a very great assembly of men…

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

Ezra 09

1 Now when these things were done, the princes came near to me, saying, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of…

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

Ezra 08

1 Now these are the heads of their fathers’ households, and this is the genealogy of those who went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king:…

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

Ezra 07

1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah, 2 the son of Shallum, the son…

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

Ezra 06

1 Then Darius the king made a decree, and the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon, was searched. 2 A scroll was found at Achmetha, in the…

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

Ezra 05

1 Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem. They prophesied to them in the name of…

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

Ezra 04

1 Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the children of the captivity were building a temple to Yahweh, the God of Israel; 2 they came near to Zerubbabel, and…

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

Ezra 03

1 When the seventh month had come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. 2 Then Jeshua the son of Jozadak…