This started out as a religious blog centering on communicating my thoughts about the Bible and Christian theology. I read some books on theology and early church history, developed a bunch of questions and began to rethink my view of the Bible and Christianity. It was an interesting period of searching and agnosticism, one which turned out to be beneficial as it helped me to come to a place of authenticity. Anyway, so now I'm switching the focus of this blog. I'll still post about the Bible and Christianity but I'll also throw political commentary as well. After all, Jesus Christ himself was unapologetic ally political as he critiqued the religious-political order of his day (for they were inextricably intertwined). I don't have a ton of time to write or think, but I'd like to post articles and my short commentary on them so that I can at least say that I didn't let time slip through my fingers being busy with other things in life. I like writing and thinking so, yea, I want to at least try. Hope this doesn't suck...
"Haters" We like to think that those most successful in society are the ones who have achieved this by being smarter, more hardworking, more determined, and somehow "better" than the vast majority of citizens. Bezos, Musk, Gates, the list goes on. Geniuses, visionaries, iconoclasts, truth tellers, are some of the names we like to call them. Those who would criticize them are dubbed as lazy, close-minded, jealous, unsuccessful, "haters". The critics will say that these people obtained obscene wealth, and with it political power and cultural influence, via avarice, simply knowing how to play the game, having already come from a privileged position, and perhaps most damning of all, through government help. We can allow a mixture for both sides of supporters and critics. Unmeritocratic Rise But, if anyone pays the slightest attention to the context and innerworkings of the rise of these figures, the existence of pure meritocracy should be obviously false. For...
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