I'd just like to emphasize, one more time, that I never intended the SSS cd as an active proselytizing tool. I simply meant that anything that is associated with BYU reflects on the church -- and therefore I'd like to have the best disc we can have, so that it will reflect well on the church. I absolutely and unequivocally promise to NEVER hand a non-member an SSS cd and then say, "Would you like yo know more about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?"
Dave >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/15/04 3:07 PM >>> On Wed 14 Apr 2004 at 19:53:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > ... we ought not to shrink from implicit or explicit missionary zeal with > regards to *anything* the UUG does. Except keep in mind who are target audience is, and who the community backing us is. BYU sports teams don't hand out pass-along cards at every single game. The Church doesn't send rogue missionaries to countries where they're not welcome. Trying to give someone a message -- no matter how important -- when they don't want to hear it doesn't make you zealous. It just makes you an overbearing fool. In case you have missed this rather crucial point, few geeks are in favor of organized religion. The number of people on Slashdot who bash Mormons along with SCO should give you a pretty good idea that we're not entirely in friendly territory. Using the SSS CD to evangelize anything other than Open Source software would be counterproductive at best, and probably even detrimental to our case. Just make the CD, explicitly associate it with BYU, and people will already know where we stand as far as religion goes. -- Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://theboard.byu.edu/ "Americans are always attempting to run away from conformity, but unfortunately they always start running in the same direction." -- Art Buchwald ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
