Redelineating the Book of Genesis:

Or Redlining the Dissemination of Penisis

When origin stories motivate hegemony, they need to be reframed.

Netanyahu and Trump have done lasting damage to the legitimacy of both Christianity and Judaism. The construct of Christian Nationalism and Zionism reveals how faith can be emptied of its prophetic core and weaponized as a tool of empire. While I respect religions, as I do the history of the world and the struggles of peoples, this assault on our humanity has made a mockery of our houses of worship. Sanctuaries that once promised refuge have been turned into stages for power.

The books that have been engrained into our culture—scriptures, histories, even progressive reinterpretations—have indoctrinated the very foundation of nations into a profound cognitive dissonance. Ideological imprinting reinforces narratives of conquest for covenant and domination for destiny. This dissonance is not only intellectual but spiritual. Centuries of imperial misreading have left a residue where the sacred has been bent to serve colonization, and the stories of a people have been harnessed to legitimize states and markets.

And yet, truths remain, and there is spirit. I believe in life as I do in the foundational balance of our ecological biodiversity. Spirit is not abstract but woven through earth, in the waters, the soil, the hands and voices of peoples and communities striving to endure. Our technologies and languages should arise from this reality—tools of reciprocity rather than instruments of domination. Too often, ideology overtakes material truth. Our capacity for invention becomes a mirror of our conceit, not our care. We create systems that accelerate genocide, ecocide, scarcity, and rupture, rather than restoring continuity and sanctity. This is the heart of the Anthropocene: an age where humanity’s spiritual and material dislocation has normalized destruction.

For those who have fallen victim to this assault, I believe prayer and faith are not illusions but living constructs that can carry us through these times. Beliefs are tied to the real ethnic and material conditions of the world, but they also provide a language for dignity, for holding fast when everything is stripped away. Our houses of worship can be the last line of defense, even under spiritual warfare—a place where people assemble to remember their humanity when every other institution has abandoned them.

My respect is for faith as a source of courage and healing, not as an ideology of subjugation. I hold greater contempt today than I ever did for belief systems that undermine the most precious human condition: the struggle to overcome at great odds. Belief is secondary to faith. At its best, faith does not anesthetize that struggle but honors it, strengthens it, and binds it to the living earth.

At the root of decolonizing accounting, I raise what is material over belief systems, and continue to hold faith above the inculcation of any belief that sanctifies empire. Faith belongs to life itself, to the resilience of our biodiversity, to the shared labor of survival and renewal. Belief, when it is engendered into empire, becomes an instrument of control. Accounting is protocol, auditing, trust, receipts, ledgers, it is the household. It is the material record of how we live with one another and with the earth. To decolonize accounting is to return these records to the service of truth, resilience, and reciprocity, rather than the endless tabulation of ideology and power.

The Book of Penisis

The Book of Penisis is a satirical rewriting of Genesis that exposes how the origin story of empire was built upon the sanctification of male flesh, lineage, and covenant. In this parody scripture, the member becomes “the beginning,” the serpent is revealed as the tongue of desire, and creation is reduced to descent, possession, and seed. The text mirrors the cadence of holy writ, yet its distortions illuminate how patriarchal faith traditions collapse spirit into power, covenant into control, and sanctity into shame. By turning Genesis inside out, Penisis reveals the absurdity of empire’s sacred foundations and reclaims the jest as a weapon of truth.

[1:1] In the beginning was the member, and the member was called origin.
[1:2] And the origin was divided, so that one part was seed and the other part was name.
[1:3] From seed came the fathers, and from name came the law.
[1:4 ]And the fathers declared the law as creation, though creation was yet unseen.
[1:5] And the law was written upon flesh, and the flesh was taken as covenant.
[1:6] Thus the world was reckoned from lineage, and lineage was counted as all that was.