[issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Mary Wood
> Oh dear. Here's me tossing my EUR 0.2 into a religious debate. > I know practically nothing about religion, and even less about > Christianity. I have, though, read parts of the Christian bible > in the past. If one is looking to learn a little more about a given religion from an unbiased sourc

Re: [issues] Re: [techtalk] Free FrameMaker beta for Linux

2000-02-25 Thread Snarfblat
Caitlyn Martin wrote: > > I think I need to point out that Adobe is one of the companies funding the > lobbying in favor of UCITA. I don't often agree with RMS, but he is 100% > correct when he calls UCITA the greatest threat to Free / Open Source > software today. So... I would like to encoura

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Rik Hemsley
#if Mary Wood > If one is looking to learn a little more about a given religion from > an unbiased source (not always easy to find), a good start is > Religious Tolerance.org; [...] Cool :) I'm actually quite interested in religions, despite not liking them in general (I blame them for lots of th

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 07:00:11PM +, Rik Hemsley wrote: > #if Mary Wood > God. I have this impression, rightly or wrongly, that the US > is full of Christians, and right-wing ones at that. Plus it looks > from here like they have a lot of power and that the US is getting > progressively l

RE: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread x
>In actuality, we have this huge population of people who just don't give >a rat's something we can't talk about on the radio. There are a lot of >Christians, mostly of one Protestant denomination or another, and there >are also a lot of atheists too, but they all just don't care, they don't >vot

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 06:20:50PM -0800, x wrote: > >In actuality, we have this huge population of people who just don't give > >a rat's something we can't talk about on the radio. There are a lot of > >Christians, mostly of one Protestant denomination or another, and there > >are also a lot of

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Jeff
On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 06:58:02PM -0800, Jeff wrote: > > Not all US people are bigoted small-minded idiots who think everything > > Did I say All? Nope. Just most. My back up to this is the voting > booth statistics. BTW, I am a US citizen. I've lived here all my life. > In fact, the first

[issues] Re; Religion

2000-02-25 Thread Mary Wood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rik says; > I have this impression, rightly or wrongly, that the US is full > of Christians, and right-wing ones at that. Plus it looks from > here like they have a lot of power and that the US is getting > progressively less liberal and more conserv

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:30:30 -0800, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Again, I need to proof read more... My point was that most of the US >citizenry just plain don't care about the laws or the government. At least not until those laws land on their head. Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: [issues] Re; Religion (Was YAFGA)

2000-02-25 Thread Jeff
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 01:17:33AM -0500, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:30:30 -0800, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >said: > > >Again, I need to proof read more... My point was that most of the US > >citizenry just plain don't care about the laws or the government. > > At least no

[issues] Re: [techtalk] Free FrameMaker beta for Linux

2000-02-25 Thread Caitlyn Martin
Hi, everyone, This probably need to migrate to issues, but... I think I need to point out that Adobe is one of the companies funding the lobbying in favor of UCITA. I don't often agree with RMS, but he is 100% correct when he calls UCITA the greatest threat to Free / Open Source software today.

Re: [issues] Re: [techtalk] Free FrameMaker beta for Linux

2000-02-25 Thread Robert Kiesling
Caitlyn Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I need to point out that Adobe is one of the companies funding the > lobbying in favor of UCITA. I don't often agree with RMS, but he is 100% > correct when he calls UCITA the greatest threat to Free / Open Source > software today. So... I w