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

Exodus 05

1 Afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said to Pharaoh, “This is what Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me…

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

Exodus 04

;1 Moses answered, “But, behold, they will not believe me, nor listen to my voice; for they will say, ‘Yahweh has not appeared to you.’ ” 2 Yahweh said to him, “What is…

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

Exodus 03

1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the back of the wilderness, and came to God’s mountain,…

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

Exodus 02

1 A man of the house of Levi went and took a daughter of Levi as his wife. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a…

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

Exodus 01

1 Now these are the names of the sons of Israel, who came into Egypt (every man and his household came with Jacob):2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and…

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

Genesis 50

1 Joseph fell on his father’s face, wept on him, and kissed him. 2 Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father; and the physicians embalmed Israel. 3 Forty days were used for…

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

Genesis 49

1 Jacob called to his sons, and said: “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which will happen to you in the days to come. 2 Assemble yourselves, and hear,…

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

Genesis 48

1 After these things, someone said to Joseph, “Behold, your father is sick.” He took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. 2 Someone told Jacob, and said, “Behold, your son Joseph…

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

Genesis 47

1 Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, with their flocks, their herds, and all that they own, have come out of the land…

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

Genesis 46

1 Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac. 2 God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night,…