Bible Episode (if that needs to be a content warning for anyone.)

Growing up in Seventh-Day Adventism, talk about the end of the world, the second coming, and Armageddon always get me riled up. What I particularly have a disdain for is the glee with which 'Christians' can find themselves in the blood and rubble of an unchecked war machine believing the will of a loving God is being accomplished. Our ability to create enemies, dehumanize them, and deny their reflection of divinity and claim a holy edict is blasphemous whether you believe in blasphemy or not.

As much as we may think of the First Testament as Israel's God on a mission to take over the world no matter who stood in the way, no matter who refused to assimilate. But then there's this little book called Jonah...

While I get myself together after a holiday season and start scheduling more interviews, allow me a diversion.

A part of recalculating is deprogramming. We have to recognize where the lines of 'truth' and 'indoctrination' got crossed. We have to access what we really know vs. what we've always believed to know what it is we truly have 'faith' in. So let's talk about Sabbath.

This episode is an essay I published on my substack about the epistemic overreach that is "the Sabbath Test" through the lens of Seventh Day Adventism.

https://altardthoughts.substack.com/p/rhythm-or-precision

on Church and State and being so certain of what you're looking for you miss it when it arrives.