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Devil’s advocate in crypto. Previously @rainbow. Global head of Macro at West Ham Capital. Provisional dictator /cryptoleft

Genesis 1:27-28:
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created THEM. God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it.’”

The emphasis on “them” is mine and a cheeky joke kind of, but I can’t help but take a more layered reading of this and see this more as being as much about the male and female polarities and not only gender as such, as much and at the same time as the specific imperative for heterosexual partners to go forth and procreate. Why would God give a shit if some of his flock were gay or trans, as long as the ship of mankind sails on? Simply unconvincing to take an anti LGBTQ reading of the Bible. Most of this seems to be arguments about words, sports and civil social conventions like the word marriage

Other than my own personal faith journey, the reason I’m taking a close look at the theological debates that touch upon today’s culture war issues (where the Bible is unclear and incomplete) versus today’s economic issues (where the Bible is unambiguously foreshadowing a communal utopia as heaven on earth)

Devil’s advocate in crypto. Previously @rainbow. Global head of Macro at West Ham Capital

is that the economic issues are so salient in their clarity in the Word that it seems far too potent a weapon for the left to leave on the shelf. And that applies to all the world’s great faiths

Having a hard time digesting it (basis of leaning left is materialism I think and requires rejection of all supernatural phenomena not based in science)

Dialectical materialism properly understood is deeply mystical and leaves room for the spiritual. Marx is Hegel turned on his side

:) I think trying to save the world and our fellow man, even on purely secular humanist grounds, is an act of deep faith and divine love. But everyone must choose their own path, and the scientific method and secular liberalism are a perfectly fine “religion”

<insert-anything> properly understood is deeply mystical and leaves room for the spiritual. (would say anyone inclined towards a non-materialistic items and non-reality for time)

Dialectic thinking of Hegel was idealist, which Marx adopted but that's where the difference between Hegel & Marx lies - Marx was *mostly* a realist by the end of his journey. Very hard, analytical approach to everything, including consciousness, even ethics. On these I can't even agree w/ Marx's stance fully, but I'm curious how you find mystical in materialism.

Bishop Barron has a few videos where he speaks on modern philosophers that i think is extremely insightful

Bishop Barron has a few videos where he speaks on modern philosophers that i think is extremely insightful 

https://youtu.be/8KQcm0Mi5To?si=ok71RvaymFfam3FO