Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (194 mails)

[aledr <matrixworkstation@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is this thread what it meant to be?

Starting a discussion about not offending people with biased religious
views, taking neutral stance, but using words like 'bedtime story',
fairytales, imaginary beings, ... seems to be a frustrated try that
would be better to never happen.
I must say that It is a funny rationale, to not say tragic.

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 12:50 +0200, Ciaran Farrell wrote:
> > Some examples of content which are not permissable:
> >     * Comic book art files
> >     * Religious text
> >     * mp3 files (patent encumbered
>
>        It should be pointed out that SWORD itself is not a religious text, it
> is software for reading such texts :-) Indeed, I have no doubt it could
> be made Cthulhu compatible (or whatever) with little effort. I suspect
> including religious texts offends some minority of militant athiests /
> secularists who make it a hot topic. Including such material in
> proportion to its relevance seems entirely reasonable to me (as a biased
> Christian of course ;-)
>
>        Then again - if people are easily offended they probably need to read
> the 'fortune -o' output in a tight loop until a healthy sense of humour,
> and an appreciation for the ridiculous starts to develop :-)
>
>        ATB,
>
>                Michael.
>
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