[aclug-L] Re: Linux and Creationism...

[Chris Brown <chrisb@xxxxxxxx>]

Well all, I'll give my two cents now.

I am wiccan. I am offended by the stupidity of anyone from any creed to
blindly accept written (okay posted) word. I said anyone and I meant it.

Now, having grown up a PK (preacher's kid) I've seen pamphlets, heard
sermons and been to workshops with the exact intent, tone and amount of
information contained on that site. It is absolutely along the line of the
"Blessed Sanctified", i.e. those who believe they have been touched by god's
spirit and "set aside" from the world to do good in the world. (I'm not
kidding that's a real definition from a major christian sect's theological
books)

My opinion is it is a real site, hosted by someone who "has a friend" and is
in all seriousness doing this for the "good of mankind" to futher
evangelize, etc. There's too much work in the "4 kids" section, and I've
seen the Game theory information before, in high school, based on Pascals's
acting as apologist for this.

This tone of voice is really perfectly in line with some of the more radical
lines of evangelical christianity. (and all sects have them. Believe me, My
mother is a song evangelist and I've been to Methodist church "revivals" of
all things that would shame some of the charismatic churches I've seen)

(kicking the teak-inlaid brass bound soapbox back under the bed)

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Nate Bargmann [mailto:n0nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:11 AM
To: discussion@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Linux and Creationism...



* John Reinke <jmreinke@xxxxxxxxx> [2002 Apr 25 05:56 -0500]:
> 
> After seeing a few of you commenting on this, I thought I'd mention 
> that this article was a slashdot.org story a few days ago [1]. I'd 
> guess that a majority of the readers came to the conclusion that it 
> really was a hoax. Yes, there are fundamentalists/extremests who 
> would probably believe everything in the article, because they, well, 
> believe everything in articles like this.

You know, John, as I was searching Netcraft I found that the host
207.67.219.101 doesn't resolve to anything.  My ISP's nameservers come
up empty and Netcraft's generic site name search does as well.  Which
leads me to think this is a site hosted via a cable or DSL connection
and certainly not on a DNS resolvable host.  The fact that the pages are
hosted on Linux with the "brand new" Apache 2.0.35 lends evidence to
my theory.

> The site is pretty well done, but you can tell they go a little 
> overboard on some articles like the "Mall Mission" article. It sounds 
> a little SNL Church Lady-like with quotes like:
> 
>    Darth Maul. Commercialized symbol of evil whose name sounds like 
> "mall". Coincidence?
> 
> I half expected to find the phrase "Well now, isn't THAT special!"

And that, I think is the whole purpose.  It's a parody and I was
initially sucked in (red faced grin).  However, I have seen serious
sites that were about as kneejerk in their professed beliefs.

> On the other hand, if it is real, I'll have to give up using 
> computers, since the only OSes I use are evil (UNIX/Linux, & MacOS). 
> There aren't any other OSes I can use, are there? I'm sure this [2] 
> effectively proves that Microsoft is evil in the author's eyes, too. 
> Rats, I'll have a nifty Master's degree in CS in a few weeks, but 
> won't be able to use it...

Harrr!

- Nate >>

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