I would vote for the The Nag Hammadi Library (early christian lost gospels) to be included as well in this all-encompassing religions/theologies activity: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html .
Eduardoa 2008/10/18 Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Lisa Caroline Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Are there any other sites we could use which would be less biased in how >> they define what religions? > > We don't have to use their site at all if we don't like their attitude. > > AFAIK the Sword software is under a Free license, and we can just put > our stuff where we like. > >> I imagine some might be seriously offended >> by considering Buddhism a cult, and in general OLPC shouldn't find >> itself in the position of endorsing one religion over another. > > I wouldn't list my work on that page. I would ask for a respectful > page for non-Christian religions. > >> Choosing >> the immediate expediency of a convenient site over the mission of OLPC >> could very well cost OLPC all kinds of support. Do we really want to >> open ourselves to charges of being underhanded Christian missionaries? > > By posting non-Christian scriptures? Do you really think people will > be that confused? > >> I imagine there might be some countries which are already challenging >> for OLPC to work in, and this could make it significantly harder in >> certain conditions. > > Let us not borrow trouble, but inquire whether this is so. > >> From the crosswire.org site: >> ---begin quote--- >> About Us >> The CrossWire Bible Society is an organization with the purpose to >> sponsor and provide a place for engineers and others to come and >> collaborate on free, open-source projects aimed at furthering the >> Kingdom of our God. We are also a resource pool to other Bible societies >> and Christian organizations that can't afford --or don't feel it's their >> place-- to maintain a quality programming staff in house. We provide >> them with a number of tools that assist them with reaching their domain >> with Christ. >> ---end quote--- >> >> My $0.02, >> Lisa > > Good questions. Thank you, Lisa. > >> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Jeffrey Kesselman wrote: >> >>> 2008/10/16 Sebastian Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>>> E >>>> The link http://www.crosswire.org/sword/publisher/index.jsp seems to >>>> suggest >>>> they would be open, for at least putting it on the "Cult / Unorthodox" >>>> module add-on section. >>>> >>> >>> The irony being that this is a world-project and, buy the numbers, >>> when comapred with say, Buddhism, Christianity is the cult/unorthodox >>> religion. > > Now, now. No need for snark. > >>> JK >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Grassroots mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Grassroots mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots >> > > > > -- > Don't panic.--HHGTTG, Douglas Adams > fivethirtyeight.com, 3bluedudes.com Obama still moving ahead in EC! > http://www.obamapedia.org/page/Smears Join us! > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Mokurai For the children > > Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज ) is my name > And Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, > The Truth my destination. > _______________________________________________ > Grassroots mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/grassroots > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel