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

Judges 04

1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, when Ehud was dead. 2 Yahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in…

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

Judges 03

1 Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan; 2 only that the generations of the…

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

Judges 01

1 After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh,* saying, “Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?” 2 Yahweh said, “Judah shall…

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

Joshua 24

1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves…

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

Joshua 23

1 After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,2 Joshua called for all Israel, for their…

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

Joshua 22

1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 2 and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened…

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

Joshua 21

1 Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers’ houses of…

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

Joshua 20

1 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, 2 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses, 3 that the man slayer who kills any…

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

Joshua 19

1 The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of…

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

Joshua 18

1 The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them. 2 Seven tribes remained among…