I’ve been listening to my frustrated thoughts about MAGA, and decided to turn them on myself. They are ignorant; I am ignorant. I want them to educate themselves, so I’m educating myself.
I was raised Buddhist, so I didn’t grow up in the church, and I only read the Bible from a historical perspective in college. I bought the most accurately translated one, but didn’t get very far. All these months later, I found a course on The Great Courses Plus on the Old Testament, and it is fascinating. The professor knows Hebrew and talks about translation, Hebrew humor and poetry structure, history, and the structures of the different books, and the Psalms. When I go to read it again, there will be context in my brain, and I won’t struggle to picture it all in my head.
It occurs to me that I have respect for every religion and culture except the one my mother was born to. I have resented Christianity my whole life, and now I’m casting aside that resentment and studying my mother’s culture as if I were studying an ancient foreign culture…which, to me, it is.
Maybe that will help me connect with people beyond my small circle of like-minded friends.
Adventures of an Earthborn Alien 