From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-07-13T11:24:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Religion (was: god 0.1.0 released)

On 7/12/07, Joe Wiltrout <wiltroutja@hotmail.com> wrote:
> John W. Kennedy wrote:
> > Robert Parker wrote:
> >> On 7/11/07, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> That's the reasonable argument against the name.   My concern is that
> >>> many folks in the thread assumed "God == Christianity" and that is
> >>> extremely offensive to me.
> >>
> >> Agreed, but "God == Islam" or "God == Judaism" is equally loathsome.
> >
> > They're all nonsense, in fact. You might as well say "Computer ==
> > Linux".
>
>
> I'm not seeing your anology. Islams have a God. Judaism has a God.
> Sunnis and Shiites (srry if i misspelled that) have a God. Computers
> could or could not have the operating system Linux, they could have
> Windows. They might even run of Mac OS. But all those religions have one
> or more Gods. Except Aethiests. They belive in Science.

We're really spinning off on a tangent here, well a tangent of a
tangent of a tangent.  If nothing else, perhaps Robert thought I was
making a "Christian specific" comment, but it really wasn't, it was
about the assumptions in this thread alone that equated God with
christianity that rubbed me the wrong way.

This is pretty insane how far away from any original point there was,
so maybe we can let the thread die by now?