BitcoinBelle on Nostr: Sure! I need faith because without it things don’t make sense and life isn’t ...

Sure!

I need faith because without it things don’t make sense and life isn’t worth much. I can understand why someone would be faithless though. There are tons of people that weaponize religious texts against others to validate themselves and/or create a sense of superiority over others. They also use their knowledge of the texts to lie, steal, and cheat others out of their time. Those people are incredibly dangerous. They make themselves idols and turn people away. People who do that don’t have true faith; they’re manipulators… and it makes sense for someone w/o faith to see their followers as gullible.

I guess the easiest way for me to explain faith’s utility is juxtaposing Bitcoin w/ fiat. The USD only has power because people believe in the government, banks, politicians, etc that are in control of it. It’s not backed by anything and only has the power that you give it. Bitcoin on the other isn’t controlled by anyone. It is backed by time and a network. It has proof of work. You can’t see what’s backing it but you know it’s working because you can see it work. I mean it went from 0 to 70k in a few years… it’s working.

No matter how content you are in your life or with your choices bad things happen. I’m a follower of Christ so all I can speak for is the Bible. I read scripture for myself and I know Jesus walked the earth, helped people, treated everyone justly, and was ultimately lied on, betrayed by his closest friends, and persecuted. He chose to lay down his life so that people who were flawed, messed up, broken could know that death wasn’t an end but a beginning. People who choose to believe in his sacrifice no matter how many times they mess up can go to him, ask forgiveness, change (as best they can) and be forgiven. A simple belief would save them from an eternity of misery.

Like Bitcoin, there is proof of Jesus’s work. Who I was before I openly accepted Jesus as my savior is not who I am today. I choose not to judge, to listen, to understand that I know nothing and own nothing. All that I have belongs to GOD because he alone is sufficient to supply my every need. I don’t have to see him work to know he is simply because I’m here today not dead, alone, or depressed. It’s not like the dollar where I can see all the bad actors and be helpless to believe that’s all I have. It’s like Bitcoin, it’s dynamic and robust the faith I have now will benefit my kids and hopefully theirs and anyone else who I talk about it with because it works and it doesn’t need me to do it. Whatever sats I stack don’t belong to me they belong to the future and just like faith it’s the substance of something hoped for (sound money that’s not corruptible) and evidence of things unseen (the future).