Why Linux is not (yet) ready for the desktop

[Brian Fahrlander]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> This skates over rather a lot of history ... to put it mildly ...
>   
    No, I think you're missing some fine points:

    It was *never* doctrine to force Christianity on others. Those who 
disobeyed will be dealt with.

    The parable of the tares tells us we're not supposed to be 
vigilantes, killing anyone who *we* think might be wrong-doers. Again, 
those who disobeyed...

    I can't tell you how many times Christ said to confess to Him, not 
the dead. That *He* is the way in, not paying money to other humans. 
Still, they did that, too.

    But on balance I don't think it's God's fault; people have known 
that murder was a bad thing, yet it's still very popular. Getting 
involved in an Asian land-war, trying to conquer the entire Russian 
territory...still they tried and re-tried.  Still not God's fault: 
people are the key.  And they're more than prepared to be wrong.
> But then, 
>
> Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition! 
>
> *grin*
>   
     You need to see Elizabeth II the Golden Age. Those bastards 
mutilating in the name of God were trying to bring their cult to Britain 
in the Spanish Armada. The way 10,000+ ships were ground to a pulp on 
the coral was spectacular.  Elizabeth didn't know about the shipwrecks 
waiting to happen- she just knew what people did: they had 4,000 
semi-trained folks, including the prisoners ("this is their Britain, 
too") and a handful of ships.  She rides out on a horse, to meet the 
folks and bolster their spirit in a beautiful, shiny suit of armor that 
you just KNOW is gonna be red,red,red, and says "Today we will be 
victorious over the Spaniards, or we dine in heaven."

    I don't know if it were historically accurate, but if it happened 
that way, I couldn't have been prouder.
> BTW, without trumpeting my particular personal beliefs, I have no
> problem with *genuine* Christianity, as opposed to its many and varied
> perverted varieties ...
>
> Not really sure why your .sig needs to announce political and spiritual
> beliefs, though... particularly on a list that deals with Ubuntu.
> (That's a word worth pondering.) It mostly serves to alienate people,
> and it most certainly will not "convert" anyone, either politically or
> spiritually.
>   
    Because it tells people what kind of person I am, and lets other 
Christians know they're not alone. It's the same footer I use on every 
list, for every private email and everthing in between, because it's the 
same identity this body has carried for quite a long time.

    And it has brought up some conversations, though I don't remember 
any lately. 

    :>

    I wish it had more room; media fights  desperately hard to depict 
Christians as brain-dead followers of a zombie, but I'm anything but 
that. It's my feeling that Adam was probably a proto-human (A.K.A. "Cave 
Man") with a bit of bio-rework and a soul installed. My brother won't 
permit this kind of curiosity to fit into his head.

    I'm also a big fan of old Earth; thinking it's only 6,000 years and 
we have so much evidence to the contrary is just being stupid (or lazy 
with the science). He doesn't _want_ us to be brain dead; he wants us to 
follow because we _care_ to. And opposite to Muslims (and I think no one 
else) killing in the name of our God is almost the worst thing you could 
do. But never mind that! We're MEAN!  We actually help little old ladies 
across the road! We must be stopped! (And don't anyone look in that 
book; Darwin was a genius!)

    It's an ever-darkening time for Christians alive these days; we're 
gonna be the ones killed for our beliefs.  No one will be killed for 
GlobalWarming, or the giant goose effect where flowers fall out of the sky.

    If you're in support of Christians, take a look around the planet. 
We're in season by all the "enlightened" folks out there, but such is 
the life.

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 Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
 Evansville, IN                                                         
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