On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:32:28 +0200, Philip Pemberton
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philpem@...> wrote:
>
> Actually, I started using it after I accidentally started a flamewar by
> saying "But thank God <x>." Someone said something along the lines of
> "That's
> blasphemous", followed by someone else arguing that it wasn't, followed
> by
> various other things along the lines of "But what about the [other
> religion]
> folks?" and such... ISTR it degenerated to such a degree that I got
> warned by
> the list admin not to do it again, reference to religion was added to
> the "Do
> Not Do This!" part of the list charter, and %DEITY came in to use on that
> particular list...
I don't see why you shouldn't be able to thank your favourite deity in
public how you want. I mean it is you thanking it/him/her and not someone
else believing in something else. Pretty intolerant of some people to
complain.
i just found it funny somehow that things have come to use %deity, in a
way it shows how society is today. But really people should be more
tolerant.
ST