2008/8/4 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 08/03/2008 05:17 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: > > Keith Bates, 2008/08/03 5:48 PM: > >> I'm just wondering how many of those who participated in the "god & > >> ubuntu" thread gave any thought to what they were actually doing when > >> they jumped in with their enlightened comments on religion. > >> > >> If I were a brand new user of Open Office asking for help on my new > >> installation of this strange software, do you think I would welcome > >> having my deeply held beliefs mocked and derided not just by one member > >> of this so-called community but by several. > >> > > > > And how many people are irritated by your signature which promotes one > > particular religion? > > How do you think Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindu's, Baha'is, > > Zoroastrians, and members of other religions react to your message? How > > will Atheists and Agnostics react? > > > > This list, and signatures to messages, is not a place to promote any > > particular religion. > > > > Agreed. Besides, just think what would happen if each sig contained a > different Hindu deitie. Now that sounds like a good project for Base... > > On that note I'm outta this thread. :-)
Let us concentrate on our primary task, which fortunately deals not with existential/cosmological questions, but with more limited ones of the type «I'm having difficulty installing OOo 2.4.1», which unlike the former are amenable to solution. In order to do so, we shall have to agree to ignore each other's signatures, whether they deal with Microsoft or another deity, and get on to the matter at hand - helping our fellow users.... Henri
