Congrats on a note/discussion not about nostr, sats, BTC, or PV.
God? Yes.
Why? Because materialism doesn't make sense to me.
Not Man made? That remains to be seen.
Discussion
Thanks! I enjoy it. Bitcoin is an amazing tool but not the meaning of life.
The man made question is a big one. If I was not a Christian, I would be a hardcore deist. It seems utterly impossible that blind naturalistic forces created everything we see, including matter itself. Throwing the chips on the table with a historical figure (like Jesus) is an intense decision.
Would you consider yourself a deist or something or have you softly landed on a religion or what?
There is a beauty and mystery to life that is only sullied by deterministic/materialistic thinking. The only thing uglier is hierarchy and control.
I was raised religious, and left it. Deist might apply. I just think that consciousness is primary, and I got there through a science detour.
Christianity? I think all organized religions, are truth that have been subverted. I think there are fairly obvious signs that christianity is a subversion.
James, the brother of Jesus said, “pure religion is to take care of orphans and widows and keep oneself unstained by the world”. So I think he, and many of us Christians would largely agree with you. Humans muddy things up, and that is why Jesus preached to the choir so much.
I would personally be very careful to throw the baby out with the bath water though. If Jesus actually lived, predicted his death and resurrection, and rose three days later, there is good reason to be a Christian in its basic sense, even if one doesn’t agree with some or many of the modern, human deviations from what Christ taught.