dadhodl on Nostr: The main reason I came back to Christianity after eight years of atheism is because ...

The main reason I came back to Christianity after eight years of atheism is because of two things: Bitcoin and my children.

For years I searched for a framework to raise my kids in. I tried stoicism, new ageism, agnosticism, and atheism. All of it left me dissatisfied. All of it felt like handing my children a bankrupt inheritance.

Bitcoin changed me. It lowered my time preference—suddenly I was thinking about the future, my legacy, and my children. That forced me to ask deeper questions. And when I searched for answers, I kept running into Christ.

My testimony feels simple: I looked everywhere else, but only Christianity gave me a model of reality that actually worked. Creation, sin, death, resurrection—Christianity explains not only success and failure, but the countless side effects and nuances of this broken world.

And then you look at the Bible itself—how it came to be over centuries, organically, with the same markers that life itself has. You’ve probably seen the chart of inter-testament references. My old atheist mind said, “That’s circular reasoning.” Yet it’s the same kind of “circular reasoning” that underpins Bitcoin’s very value.

Both are rooted in truth, in something beyond the self.

Bitcoin pointed me to the long game. Christ showed me the eternal one.