Micah Redding: Faith in the Future of Humanity

It is “ok” for the government to institute the death penalty, just as it is “ok” for the government to go to war - in the sense that a Christian should not violently oppose those things.

Romans 13 addresses how God uses the cycle of violence to limit itself.

James L.

The simulation argument conversation.

When I come up with an idea, and think hard about it, and then discover that someone has already made it, I’m excited.

Jonathan G Cannon - that’s exactly right.

Experience would indicate this universe is not intended to be hackable in the sense specified here, and is instead intended to be understood and manipulated within the rules of its operation.

http://lifestreamblog.com/will-wright-plans-to-gamify-our-lifestream-data/ http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/07/mf_iconswright/all/ Some interesting talk about visualizing your past and personal history.

Lately, there has been a flurry of discussion about email, from the “email is broken” thread to the “we’re solving the wrong problem” theme.

From my trip journal - Monday, May 21, 2012 Aguas Calientes, Peru.

I’m back.

I’m in the middle of a 40-day, 16-stop, 14-country tour of the world.

I’m in the middle of a 40-day, 16 stop, 14 country tour of the world.

In some ways, this trip is a vacation.

I’m in the middle of a 40-day, 16 stop, 14 country tour of the world.

I’m in the middle of a 40-day, 16 stop, 14 country tour of the world.

I’m in the middle of a 40-day, 14-country tour of the world.

In the movie The Matrix, Morpheus prods Neo to think about his emotions over the course of his lifetime.

This is a response to Hank Pellissier’s essay on the cruelty of God.

Since our second official episode just went up, I thought it would be good to point out that I’m doing a podcast.

For several years now, I’ve argued that everything in the bible was completely fulfilled and finished almost two thousand years ago.

In 1000 BC, in a world of slaves and warlords, where life was often nasty, brutish, and short, it would have been hard to imagine that humanity could ever be anything else.

Wesley J.

This past Saturday, Ryan Hogan, John Yates and I delivered a presentation and panel discussion on the future of accelerating change at Nashville Podcamp.

For a while, I’ve been trying to puzzle out the chronology of 1 Corinthians 15:20-28, and finding it incredibly difficult.

It is very common to hear Christians define “sin” as “missing the mark”.

The universe appears to have been fine-tuned for life.

Once I heard someone declare that God was like an umbrella, always standing between you and all the trouble raining down.

Late last year, I explained why I (a non-Mormon) had joined the Mormon Transhumanist Association.

This is the fourth in a series of essays on Christianity as Anthropology.

Walter Wink is primarily significant to me for his work in defining the concept of The Powers and tying that together with Christus Victor atonement theory.

I believe there are aliens among us.

For the past two weeks, I’ve been exploring the nature and rise of human evil.

When you flip a coin, it’s customary to ask the other person, “heads or tails?”

This is the second post in a series on Christianity as Anthropology.

Most of my currently forming understanding of Christianity sees it as a confrontation with the political, systemic, and psychological forces that shaped humanity from the beginning.

Recently Google has changed its privacy policy, causing a lot of people to feel uneasy about the amount of search history that Google has on them.

Some comments on a recent post brought up the question of why humans are moral.

Let’s talk about Adam and Eve and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.

I grew up arguing about the bible.

Theistic Reality is a term I coined (for myself, anyway) to refer to the set of expectations we would have about a reality in which God exists.

I was recently talking to someone about how uncertain everything is.

Panentheism is the understanding of God as intimately connected to, and yet beyond, the universe we experience.

The understanding of Christianity and the scriptures as speaking directly to experienced realities, rather than trying to map metaphysical existence.

Sorry things are a little slow lately.

Solipsism is the belief that you can never truly know if anyone else is real.

I’m writing this for my atheist friends who see no reason or justification for believing in God - not to convince them, but to give them a window into my own thought processes, and an alternative to many of the things they’ve probably encountered.

In Insurrection, Peter Rollins critiques the Deus Ex Machina.

The Skulls is a fictitious movie based on Yale’s notorious secret Skull and Bones society.

The idea that the scriptures should be understood as stories and conversations arising within particular circumstances in world history.