The first time I ever mentioned Christianity to my Twitter crowd was during an online philosophy course called “Money, Morality, and Debt.” I liked it for the historic take on money, morality, and debt; most of the other participants were there to talk about Bitcoin. But one of the topics that we discussed in class was the Jubilee. It pretty quickly devolved into “We should cancel all student debt. Why does the US have such a terrible student debt system? Here in [insert European country], higher education is practically free. It’s terrible to make an 18-year-old get into lifetimes of debt just to get a liberal arts degree.” Which is true, but not every 18-year-old needs a liberal arts degree, and unless they are very, very oblivious, they know that student debt is a major problem, and if they make an informed choice to go to an expensive college, caveat emptor (which is Latin for “Do you really need to take Latin?”).
But I digress, like the class discussion did. We were talking about the Jubilee. Someone said something along the lines of, “Well, if everyone knew that a Jubilee was going to occur, they would have Priced It In. If you were buying a field two years before the Jubilee, you would have taken it into account and Priced It In. Jubilee was always Priced In. There was very obviously a Time Value of Field at play, so [Editor’s Note: I’m paraphrasing] the Bible is dumb and human intellect reigns supreme.”
But the Bible isn’t dumb. God, it turns out, also foresaw what a few random people who spend a lot of time on Twitter and take philosophy classes on Zoom figured out – and called it out specifically. I copied and pasted a Bible quote into the Zoom chat (I think mine was from Deuteronomy, actually, but Leviticus 25:13-17 is way better, I should have used that one) and waited for someone to say, “Oh, wow, that girl knows Bible verses. She must be dumb, too, and probably from the southern United States and conservative and narrow-minded and cares only about high school football and decorative driftwood signs that say things like ‘Wine is Mama’s Juice.’”
But no one did.
No one, as far as I can tell, unfollowed me on Twitter or changed an opinion about me (or, more likely, formed one about me at all). I was still just a girl in a Zoom box who they had maybe seen on Twitter, and who doesn’t actually look like her Twitter picture when she’s poorly lit on a random Tuesday night 2 hours past her bedtime. I wasn’t immediately canceled.
Has that given me courage? Has that instance convicted me to come out as a Christian on social media, reputational repercussions be darned? It sure hasn’t!
But I’m a little closer than I used to be.
— MeganPrestonMeyer
But I digress, like the class discussion did. We were talking about the Jubilee. Someone said something along the lines of, “Well, if everyone knew that a Jubilee was going to occur, they would have Priced It In. If you were buying a field two years before the Jubilee, you would have taken it into account and Priced It In. Jubilee was always Priced In. There was very obviously a Time Value of Field at play, so [Editor’s Note: I’m paraphrasing] the Bible is dumb and human intellect reigns supreme.”
But the Bible isn’t dumb. God, it turns out, also foresaw what a few random people who spend a lot of time on Twitter and take philosophy classes on Zoom figured out – and called it out specifically. I copied and pasted a Bible quote into the Zoom chat (I think mine was from Deuteronomy, actually, but Leviticus 25:13-17 is way better, I should have used that one) and waited for someone to say, “Oh, wow, that girl knows Bible verses. She must be dumb, too, and probably from the southern United States and conservative and narrow-minded and cares only about high school football and decorative driftwood signs that say things like ‘Wine is Mama’s Juice.’”
But no one did.
No one, as far as I can tell, unfollowed me on Twitter or changed an opinion about me (or, more likely, formed one about me at all). I was still just a girl in a Zoom box who they had maybe seen on Twitter, and who doesn’t actually look like her Twitter picture when she’s poorly lit on a random Tuesday night 2 hours past her bedtime. I wasn’t immediately canceled.
Has that given me courage? Has that instance convicted me to come out as a Christian on social media, reputational repercussions be darned? It sure hasn’t!
But I’m a little closer than I used to be.
— MeganPrestonMeyer
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