Today I played some with my cat and took a little nap. Had a couch I bought from the thrift store delivered. It looks nice in my living room. More comfortable than my last one. I ate the last slice of pizza left over from the weekend.
Here in the next few minutes, I will get up and shower and then go to work at the bookstore, then go to work overnight at the guard shack, then will come home in time to take my kitten to get spayed, before finally going to sleep.
But my heart is in Palestine.
And my brain is thinking about this thing called the Bible and all the trouble it has caused for people over the years.
My brain is thinking about the Bible because my social media is full of my Christian friends using it to view the news in unsettling ways.
It makes a lot of them see Israel as some sort of prop. The last chess piece to be moved before the whole end of the world.
And I want to say something about that to them.
But what do you do when you know they won't listen?
And what do you do with a book that is full of God ordering the genocide of the people who are living in the land now known as Israel?
The book is a book of conquest. Of Violence. Of the murdering of babies simply because they are not Israelite babies.
Read Joshua. Read Judges. Read what it says God says.
I don't know. This is not what I meant to write. I didn't even mean to write anything. I'm late to shower, I have to leave for work in twenty minutes.
But I am at a weird place where I still want to believe in something.
I want a faith. I want a religious practice.
Tonight my local synagogue is starting a 17-week course on the introduction to Judaism. If I wasn't working tonight, I'd probably go. I love the history and the literature and all of it.
But I can't close my eyes to the world. I can't deny the reality that is around me. Whether that be science, injustice, or just some good literary and historical criticism skills.
I'm not saying that you can't embrace religion without denying the above, but it sure as hell seems that way sometimes.
2:54 p.m. - 2023-10-16
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