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Micah Redding
@micahredding.bsky.social
Rationalist, Futurist Christianity. Expanding, lasting life. Religion and the roots of scientific progress. Former musician, one-time world traveler, current Nashville-ian, Christian transhumanist @christiantranshumanism.org
My most embarrassing opinion:

The Scots-Irish actually did come closest to recovering the spirit of early Christianity
August 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
I spend most of my "social media" attention and posting budget at Substack these days
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Rationalist, Futurist Christianity. Expanding, lasting life. Religion and the roots of scientific progress. Christian transhumanist.
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August 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
In retrospect, this was the high point of civilization

youtu.be/JqnO40AGRSc?...
Jimmy Ray - Are You Jimmy Ray? (Video)
YouTube video by JimmyRayVEVO
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August 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
I’m kinda like an alternate history buff, except the history I believe in is the conventional history, lol
July 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Asked ChatGPT who to interview, and it suggested me...so that's...flattering?
July 30, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Jordan Daniel Wood covers the Cosmic Christology of Maximus Confessor, the secular and transhumanist reception of Christian ideas—Teilhard de Chardin, Frank Tipler, Julian Huxley and more.
youtu.be/huVz1u8a25U
Creation as Incarnation—with Jordan Daniel Wood
YouTube video by Micah Redding
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July 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Every day, I think how lucky I am to have a refrigerator with WiFi—so I can login and fix the settings it automatically screwed up overnight.
June 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Installed a mosquito trap on my back porch.

Is this creating inexcusable amounts of insect suffering?
June 25, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Neuralink and Faith—Noland Arbaugh's Spiritual Journey

(direct link, cause this is Bluesky!)

youtu.be/xw2Y258hCpU
Neuralink and Faith—Noland Arbaugh's spiritual journey
YouTube video by Micah Redding
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June 24, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"America was founded as a Christian nation" always seemed to me like an attempt to reject America's founding philosophy (enlightenment liberalism), or to ignore the deists.

But this is a paradoxical subject.
June 16, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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June 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The modern Christian take on sex, does not match the ancient Christian take on sex.

This is a problem no one talks about.
June 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Thinking about a road trip
June 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Newest interview! Critical Rationalism and Religion with Bruce Nielson and Peter Johansen from the Theory of Anything Podcast

We explore Critical Rationalism, religion, faith and reason, many worlds theory, the omega point, and how it ALL connects.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzml...
Critical Rationalism & Religion
YouTube video by Micah Redding
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May 30, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Arguments for the existence of God typically use "God" as a placeholder, and avoid specifying who or what that God is.

This is kind of suspicious to me. It's like they push all the most interesting questions into a footnote, and just focus on establishing the conceptual category.
May 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
There are clearly aspects of human psychology that are isomorphic to demons.

I don’t know whether that’s “demythologizing” or not. They’re in our minds, but they do exist.
May 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
They should rebrand "Corporations" as "Cooperations"
May 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I really respect the kind of analytical, highly-differentiated thought you get in academics.

Except that, in a large number of cases, it seems clear people are not actually doing that, they're just hiding behind terminology.
May 24, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The power of Eastern Orthodoxy is tradition.

The power of Catholicism is centralization.

The power of Protestantism is open-ended critique.
May 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I've enjoyed exploring Dr. Allison's thesis on miracles and super-normal human capabilities

youtu.be/YRc0w6AHcRo?...
Miracles, Reason, and History—Dale Allison
YouTube video by Micah Redding
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May 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I find theosis compelling, not because I’m interested in possessing any particular attribute of God, but because I’m compelled by a God who wants to share all of his attributes with us.
May 23, 2025 at 6:19 AM
A philosopher saying people don't get stuck, is interesting because it seems like people get into philosophy because they get stuck.
May 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Sometimes the anticipations of prior eras sound like snake oil...

Because they succeeded more than we expected, and that leads us to expect dramatically more in the future.
May 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The more I think about The Beach Boys, the more confused I am
May 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Thinking about how Pink Pony Club is kind of a story of transfiguration and ascension
May 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM