My journey as a Christian software developer
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#2How does a software developer retain a religious faith?
In software development when there is a bug in your code you go back and rework or rewrite it until the code executes successfully without any internal logical failures.
How can someone who understands this process look at an ancient holy book filled with contradictions, inconsistencies, stretched truths, thinly veiled metaphor, lies, and sporadic facts and support both its proponents’ refusal to change it and its proponents’ insistence that it be used as a guide to living life in contemporary society?
Why recognize and revere the faith in rigor when concerning one’s self with something as inconsequential as a to do list app, but throw that all away when concerning one’s self with topics as important as identity, morality, and humanism?
Re: My journey as a Christian software developer
#3How does a software developer retain a religious faith? In software development when there is a bug in your code you go back and rework or rewrite it until the code executes successfully without any internal logical failures. How can someone who understands this process look at an ancient holy book filled with contradictions, inconsistencies, stretched truths, thinly veiled metaphor, lies, and sporadic facts and supp…
This is a very small minded take. I personally also find religious beliefs to be unpalatable to myself personally, and when I see people talking about it as settled fact I find it a bit cringy and silly, but I have to remind myself that people believe what they believe and religion says very little if anything about intelligence and problem solving skill. Faith is just faith, you don't know something is true for a fact, you just accept it as so, it's standing on a branch and being sure it won't break. People do it and it's fine.
Lots of very technical people are very religious. I'm not sure why, but it is very common. Doctors are the most prominent one, most doctors are very religious. You can ask, how can someone see the inner workings of the body, understand evolution, all the scientific rigor that goes into understanding that and still believe some guy was born of a virgin and died and was resurrected? I don't get it either, but they know why, and it's their life, and accepting that humans do this and leaving them alone, respecting their autonomy, not picking on people about their religious beliefs is how I think we should behave. There's merit in the conduct a lot of it brings out of people if nothing else.
We all have faith in something. We are all members of some type of cult, with or without the negative connotations that come with that word, most of us that would classify ourselves as atheist would never admit that many of our beliefs are faith, that we go with the flow of social expectations, that we are probably wrong about most of what we believe, it's as real to us as anything, and we would do well to look at ourselves rather than heckle people we don't understand.
Re: My journey as a Christian software developer
#4How does a software developer retain a religious faith? In software development when there is a bug in your code you go back and rework or rewrite it until the code executes successfully without any internal logical failures. How can someone who understands this process look at an ancient holy book filled with contradictions, inconsistencies, stretched truths, thinly veiled metaphor, lies, and sporadic facts and supp…
This is a very small minded take. I personally also find religious beliefs to be unpalatable to myself personally, and when I see people talking about it as settled fact I find it a bit cringy and silly, but I have to remind myself that people believe what they believe and religion says very little if anything about intelligence and problem solving skill. Faith is just faith, you don't know something is true for a fa…
But this fails to address the question and just reasserts that what I asked is true while seemingly sounding like you’re attacking me for bringing it up…?
> we would do well to look at ourselves rather than heckle people we don't understand.
When a question asked in good faith about faith is answered by accusing the asker of being a heckler is usually a sign that that bit of faith is threatened by critical thinking.
> it's standing on a branch and being sure it won't break.
When your branch has the political will to harm others you can believe I’ll be asking questions why you think that branch will hold.
I just hope you have the conviction of belief to answer honestly.
> accepting that humans do this and leaving them alone, respecting their autonomy, not picking on people
I like a simplified version of your suggested world
Re: My journey as a Christian software developer
#5How does a software developer retain a religious faith? In software development when there is a bug in your code you go back and rework or rewrite it until the code executes successfully without any internal logical failures. How can someone who understands this process look at an ancient holy book filled with contradictions, inconsistencies, stretched truths, thinly veiled metaphor, lies, and sporadic facts and supp…
What seems to underly your question appears to be a belief that people are primarily rational creatures.
If that were so, then it would indeed be hard to understand.
For most, if not all, rationality is a tool, not something that informs every aspect of their lives.
Religion provides community, meaning, continuity and a moral framework. I have also met very few religious people who are fundamentalist in their belief. Most acknowledge there are inconsistencies and things they can't explain.
Re: My journey as a Christian software developer
#6How does a software developer retain a religious faith? In software development when there is a bug in your code you go back and rework or rewrite it until the code executes successfully without any internal logical failures. How can someone who understands this process look at an ancient holy book filled with contradictions, inconsistencies, stretched truths, thinly veiled metaphor, lies, and sporadic facts and supp…
I’ll ignore the religious part of you statement because I think it’s posed in bad faith (bad pun).
Programmers aren’t rational in the slightest. How many tech leads and senior engineers write bad code and design bad systems and behave completely irrational about it when it yields bad results. No, they double down on things and dance around the root cause.
Re: My journey as a Christian software developer
#7How does a software developer retain a religious faith? In software development when there is a bug in your code you go back and rework or rewrite it until the code executes successfully without any internal logical failures. How can someone who understands this process look at an ancient holy book filled with contradictions, inconsistencies, stretched truths, thinly veiled metaphor, lies, and sporadic facts and supp…
This is a very small minded take. I personally also find religious beliefs to be unpalatable to myself personally, and when I see people talking about it as settled fact I find it a bit cringy and silly, but I have to remind myself that people believe what they believe and religion says very little if anything about intelligence and problem solving skill. Faith is just faith, you don't know something is true for a fa…
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Re: My journey as a Christian software developer
#8How does a software developer retain a religious faith? In software development when there is a bug in your code you go back and rework or rewrite it until the code executes successfully without any internal logical failures. How can someone who understands this process look at an ancient holy book filled with contradictions, inconsistencies, stretched truths, thinly veiled metaphor, lies, and sporadic facts and supp…
As a fellow celebrant, the Word can be seen as the operating system of life.
By all means, reject this assertion, but feel free to share: what's written on your boot sector?
Re: My journey as a Christian software developer
#9How does a software developer retain a religious faith? In software development when there is a bug in your code you go back and rework or rewrite it until the code executes successfully without any internal logical failures. How can someone who understands this process look at an ancient holy book filled with contradictions, inconsistencies, stretched truths, thinly veiled metaphor, lies, and sporadic facts and supp…
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