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I was a lapsed Catholic / agnostic CS major in college. Met a crazy chaplain priest who would show up at lots of university events and got to know students, and
by person101x 4mo ago
I was a lapsed Catholic / agnostic CS major in college. Met a crazy chaplain priest who would show up at lots of university events and got to know students, and who was very good at explaining the Catholic faith and the Scriptures.
At the same time, I took two humanities electives by accident: a philosophy course, which taught me what atheism brought to its conclusion results in (thank you Nietzche), and a Hebrew scriptures course, which taught me that the scriptures are essentially a story about the nature of God's relationship with humans.
My math courses were also very convicting. Kurt Godel and his proof for the existence of God, and his incompleteness theorem. I couldn't shake the experience, upon learning about Bertrand Russell's failed endeavor, that there must be a foundation for the mathematical reality we know deeper than humans can perceive.
I ended up in seminary and studied philosophy and theology, and finally made my way back to software engineering. 12 years later my life is still full of purpose and growth due to the faith I found then.