Christ-curious in Silicon Valley?

Excerpt: "Silicon Valley, it seems, is coming to Jesus. There are no bad conversions, in my book; I was born and raised a Christian and remain one, and it’s good, from that standpoint, to see erstwhile nonbelievers take an interest in the faith, whatever the reason.

Thus, I was cautiously optimistic as I read a recent Vanity Fair feature, by the writer Zoë Bernard, on emerging tech-world Christianity. “It was a time not so very long ago, mostly in the 2010s, when Silicon Valley cultivated a stance of pointed hostility not only toward conservatism but to the Protestant doctrines that underpin much of American life,” Bernard writes. But no more. Christianity is now an object of fascination to the libertarian capitalists of the tech world.

In the faith, Bernard writes, the converts of Silicon Valley see a great deal of utility: a source of community and, therefore, professional networking; an index of ethics capable of checking some of the libertine excesses of their world; a signal of self-disciplined seriousness versus the flip-flop-wearing whiz-kid archetype popular in this same universe a mere decade ago. Christianity has become a potential path to fortune.

Bernard’s article makes clear that some converts are cynical characters merely pretending at Christianity. “I guarantee you there are people that are leveraging Christianity to get closer to Peter Thiel,” one entrepreneur told Bernard. But even if a significant proportion of the new believers are entirely sincere, that doesn’t mean their theology is copacetic. Christianity, they ought to know, is not a life hack: It’s a life-upending surrender to the fact of divine love.