Filip May'r <sapphire23...@outlook.com> writes: > Notwithstanding I think it would be better to find a different > signature because it may send a wrong idea about the intent. Moreover, > we are made in the image of God who is upright and just and never does > harm,
"made in the image of God" is a notion from the Torah, as is the Great Flood, the extermination of the Amelekites, the killing of people not pronouncing "shiboleth" correctly and various other not quite harmless happenings. > and we should seek to reflect that image in us. There is also the commandment to not take the name of the Lord in vain; and technical discussions in a mailing list for a typesetting program would seem like not warranting the kind of public displays of piety that Jesus admonishes against in Matthews 6: 5 And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. 7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. What would count more as a "vain repetition" than an automatically appended signature? I don't think that either LilyPond or Christianity (which for better or worse is just one of many beliefs) have a lot to gain from dragging religion into the discussions here since we reduce our common ground in that manner without actually furthering either cause. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user