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0 sats \ 8 replies \ @fiatbad 24 Sep \ on: Bitcoin Apologetics- Roleplay bitcoin
If we were using Bitcoin for more than speculative investment, we wouldn't have to evangelize at all. We could lead by example, by refusing to use (evil) fiat money, and going out of our way to spend and use Bitcoin ONLY. We could be a principled and virtuous people.
This is the best advertisement we could possibly do. Be the change we want to see, not just talk about it.
The Christian apologetics analogy is perfect. If Christianity were true, it wouldn't require ridiculous mental-gymnastics and apologetics to convince others. Christians would live differently. The world would look different.
But Christianity is just a story. Bitcoin is just a story.
At least Bitcoin is real and does have the potential to change the world for the better. But Bitcoiners themselves aren't acting like it. They're acting like Christians, telling stories, going to church on Sunday, and then doing fuck all the rest of the time. (spending fiat and whining about how hard it is to switch to Bitcoin "for now")
Just curious, why do you have such a low opinion of Christians? Even if you don't believe that what they claim is true, you seem to be quite happy to make sweeping, generalized statements about them.
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I spent most of my life around them, and I was one for the first 25 years of my life. I was even studying to go into ministry.
I think that people would act differently if they really KNEW they were headed for a better life after this one. Sure, there are a few examples of martyrs who do exemplify what it would look like to truly know for certain. Just like there are a few Bitcoiners who move to El Salvador or Costa Rica.
But the vast majority of Christians don't live it. And I don't blame them. The evidence for Christianity is piss awful. The true believers don't have evidence to believe, they're just so stupid that they don't require evidence. Like the Heaven's Gate cultists.... you gotta be real stupid to be a martyr for something so obviously fake (Christianity).
"... sooner or later you're going to realize, just as I did, that there's a difference between knowing the path and walking the path." - Morpheus
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I have to disagree with you on the evidence, but I would just point to some of the really smart Brits that defend the faith. Christianity is far from obviously fake, and seems like you have a little motivation in saying so.
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Oh, interesting... what changed your path away from doing ministry?
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Good question. I guess I was kinda giving up on the idea even before I started doubting the veracity of Christianity. So it had to be something else.....
I've always been interested in so many things that I could never settle on any single profession. I think I switched my college major a dozen times. My 20's was just a mess. No direction. But.... I never stopped learning, reading new things and experiencing new things. So, I don't regret the "mess". Maybe that's exactly what a young person should do.... experience and learn as much as possible instead of focusing on a single discipline.
Eventually, it was reading a few key books that made me turn from Christianity entirely.
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Sounds a lot like my story. I can really relate to the "mess". My profession chose me. I can't seem to leave it despite my effort. But a Bachelors in Philosophy doesn't lend much help.
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Ah, I see. Yeah I'd love to know what these key books were too
Btw just so there's no misunderstanding, I do consider myself a Christian but I'm always curious to hear others points of view too
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This is great. Let's talk about this.
As to your point about using Bitcoin as money, I think it would most often still get spent like fiat. If I buy gift cards with sats on Strike and live on a Bitcoin standard, the person accepting my money isn't really involved. Furthermore, trying to eliminate another persons choice in the transaction and force Bitcoin doesn't really jive with the Bitcoin ethos.
Likewise, Christianity is freely chosen, it's a gift. As we have seen from Covid and Bitcoin, people will reject sound reason. And you are right, the world should look different if Christians really believe the story. But that gets back to understanding the problem.
"It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “A DOG RETURNS TO ITS OWN VOMIT,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire.”
https://www.bible.com/bible/100/2PE.2.22.NASB1995
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