On 17/04/14 13:12, auxsvr@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 17 of April 2014 06:39:07 Anton Aylward wrote:
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable...A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill. -- H. L. Mencken
This definition of faith makes no sense to me and I'm a Christian. Isaac Newton both was a man full of faith (Christian) and obviously had the capacity for clear and realistic thought, as evidenced by the opinions of most famous physicists and mathematicians throughout history and his accomplishments, too numerous to even mention at the moment. Some obscure atheist calling him and other Christians ill because of their faith is really too much to warrant a response from a sensible person, so I'll leave it at that. You've managed with this quote to demonstrate to the entire world how much out of contact with reality certain atheists are, although I don't think this was your purpose; that's quite an accomplishment.
To the moderators: Personal attacks are unacceptable in openSUSE mailing lists, according to the netiquette, https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Mailing_list_netiquette#Don.27t_be_aggressi.... Calling Christians, among others, ill, because they're Christians is actually stupid in the best case, and if this were the first time such an incident occurs, I wouldn't bother reporting it, but some in openSUSE mailing lists seem to think it is acceptable to insult and slander others for no reason at all.
Regards, Peter
Oh please, send this somewhere else I don't read this or any other technical list to access discussions about faith. In any event the views expressed in the sig are those of H L Mencken. How that can be construed as a personal attack on members of this list is beyond me. And the poster is a very frequent contributor to the list and as far as I can recall none of us has complained about the sig before I repeat please stop. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org