Re: can we keep religious beliefs out of irc please?

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Aug 11 2002 - 12:31:48 EDT

  • Next message: Rui Miguel Seabra: "Re: can we keep religious beliefs out of irc please?"

    This is not appropriate for this list. Yell all you like on #abiword.

    On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:

    >
    > Topic for #abiword is Pope to give first sermon on IRC - Tune into irc.vatican.it#pope tonight 7 p.m. GMT | Diet Coke is for sissies
    >
    > Religious beliefs are the cause for millions of deaths along the history
    > of human kind.
    >
    > Today, still a lot of people kill and destroy in name of this god or
    > that one, and that plays a huge part of the reasons I'm quite agnostic
    > (but not arrogant enough to be atheistic).
    >
    > The christian church, for one hand, has enough propaganda already.
    >
    > Meanwhile, there is channel #abiwordprocessor where the topic is:
    > Welcome to AbiWord | alternate channel for the non religious folk
    >
    > TIA, rms
    >
    > ps: I wouldn't have minded if it was something like:
    > Topic for #abiword is Christian Pope to give first sermon on IRC - Check
    > www.news.site for more info | Diet Coke is for sissies
    >
    > Because _that_ would be news, instead of religious propaganda, even if
    > off-topic and not particularly funny (unlike the diet coke remark ;)).
    >

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