Re: [alliance] Official deity

[Ramon van Handel <vhandel@chem.vu.nl>]

Daniel Arbuckle wrote:
> 
> What AllOS is about depends on who you are. I think, for most of us,
> designing the best OS that we can is a sort of hobby. Hobbies should be
> fun. If we think that Discordianism is fun, and we want to use it as
> part of our culture, who has the right to care?

I think having an official deity is very dangerous.  Not everybody will
be amused.  I don't have the impression that anybody on this list is
particularly religious... I personally come from a jewish family, but
I am not a religious jew.  Had I been, I can assure you I would have
not been particularly amused by this.  I think the same can be said
for really religious people of any other religion (except, of course,
discordianism :-P).

So let's not do this !  For purely political reasons, this is a VERY
VERY bad idea.  In a sense, it is a sort of discrimination.

PS, now that we're on the subject, I've never heard of Eris.  Can
anyone give a short explanation ?  ;)

Ramon


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