Over the past year since December 2025 and inbetween my blockchain projects (and hunting for funding), I’ve started going to church, fumbled on making a habit of getting through the bible, ingesting Youtube Christian content, along with opening and reading a little bit of other books on the history of Christianity. I have so many thoughts and ideas that I need to get them out on digital paper. More importantly, I need to organize my thoughts to make a coherent argument that the direction of blockchain field requires the direct acknowledgement and adherence of Christian teachings. So I’m kicking off a series or rather a draft series of articles (I’ve already given up on making sure everything is cited) that discusses various aspects of Christianity, from its history, its innovations, how it aligns with blockchains and ultimately the problems it faces today.
I currently view Christianity as a hollowed out rotting and decayed husk in the West, or its appropriate name, the Christendom. When I first had this thought and attempted to articulate verbally on why I felt this way, I ended up word vomiting while offending people listing out a bunch of societal problems (a few gender specific ones). Weeks later I narrowed down my sentiment to how Christians don’t honor the 7 heavenly virtues and they dance with the 7 deadly sins. But then I had a discussion with a friend who said that concept is purely a Catholic convention.
So recently now I’m revising my sentiment to the issue that:
- Christians don’t read the bible
- Christians are either not understanding, misinterpreting (by whose authority?), or outright neglecting what they’ve read
- Pastors aren’t properly instructing and holding Christians accountable
- Most Christians are unaware of and don’t engage with the millennium and change’s worth of Christian history and theological works
I believe Martin Luther, the catalyst for the reformation that lead the split of Christians from the Catholic Church and the creation of various denominations, was right in decentralizing Christianity in the sense that each person has unmediated direct access to God and not through any priest. And my evidence for this is in the achievements made by the United States of America. The US, up until a specific point achieved unparalleled levels of individualism, high standards of living, progress, opportunities, and cultural influence on the world.
That being said, I think Martin Luther placed too much faith in the average person. You absolutely need an accountability system to ensure each person plays their role. The congregation represent Christians and ultimately the faith. If they live a life of hypocrisy, nonbelievers will think of them and consequently religion as a joke and deter people from the religion. The pastor needs to be held accountable in that he needs to guide and instruct the congregation on teachings from the bible. All of it. I’ve been going to church for 6 or 7 months now and I’ve yet to hear a sermon on “What Christians are not allowed to participate in”. I will eventually write a piece on this because there are obvious societal sentiments you absolutely cannot share as a Christian as you’ll undermine the foundation of the religion. Yet I find a number of Christians sharing these views which lead me back to the 4 points I summarized.
In any case, here are a couple neutral topics I plan on writing up on:
- The Absurdity and Counterintuitive nature of Christianity
- Your Heart+ Your conscience+ Reasoning + Natural Law+ Bible: How Laws are made
If I have any random thoughts, I might contain it to this thread.