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Re: "purity" package

>>>>> "john" == John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:

      john> The Bible is not offensive.

>>>>> "philip" == Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> replies:

    philip> You have no idea how offensive that statement is to me
    philip> (otherwise you wouldn't have made it) :-[

well, offensive or not: it surely is upon everyone to take his
personal opinion.  no doubt about that.

anyhow, whether you are fond of the bible or not, you probably admit
that the book has always been quite an important thoughout human's
history (i don't discuss now whether it inspired good or bad things).
it seems to belong among important cultural heritage, and enters into
a sort of general education for people's history, whether you are a
believer or not.  let's take shakespeare for example: his works belong
into an important cultural heritage, and although people might like
shakespeare or not, his works are quite recommended to read, at least
because of the general education.

no doubt innocents suffered, just as someone could have been
influenced by some of shakespeare's tragedies to make suffer or to
forbid marriage or i don't know what.  you surely understand that we
could discuss now whether the bible was misinterpreted or not, as far
as things like inquisition, catholic/protestant wars, jewish pogroms,
etc are concerned.  and manoj is right, debian-private seems not to be
the very right place for such a general discussion.

as far as the debian is concerned, what i'm trying to say here is that
the bible is generally admitted by both believers and nonbelievers to
be at least an important cultural heritage for us, and as such, any
comparison with the purity package seems to fail, isn't it???

and i'm not saying remove the purity package, i'm just trying to say
that the purity package seems to be much less important that the bible
package, as far as the "general cultural level" of the debian dist is
concerned.

cheers
-- 
tibor.simko@aleph.dpp.fmph.uniba.sk





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