On Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 6:18:06 AM UTC+5:30, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 04/17/2017 03:23 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > > Paul Rubin writes: > >> Rurpy writes: > > >>> A couple weeks ago a frequent poster here (Steve D'Aprano) > >>> called another participant an "ugly american" > >> > >> Oh stop trolling. > > > > Paul, that is uncalled for. The charge of bigotry is not to be lightly > > dismissed, and we do want to foster an environment here where people > > will feel welcome. > > You mean all the non-religious people? > > Because some of your signatures don't feel welcoming to people of faith: > > \ “I think Western civilization is more enlightened precisely | > `\ because we have learned how to ignore our religious leaders.” | > _o__) —Bill Maher, 2003 | > > \ “Science shows that belief in God is not only obsolete. It is | > `\ also incoherent.” —Victor J. Stenger, 2001 | > _o__) | > > \ ?Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a | > `\ religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.? | > _o__) ?Anonymous | > > \ ?Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be | > `\ prayer and becomes correspondence.? ?Oscar Wilde, _The Epigrams | > _o__) of Oscar Wilde_, 1952 | > > >> Steven, please try to be a little more attentive to people's delicate > >> feefees in the future. Rurpy, should that take care of it? > > > > No, that doesn't do it. Taking care of people's feelings is an essential > > part of keeping a community healthy and welcoming, and your belittling > > does not help with that. > > Neither do (a subset of) your signatures, yet you refuse to filter them out: > > [from previous email] > > So I will continue to treat all those topics equally: peripheral > > comments on beliefs are just part of respectful human discourse, so long > > as I'm respectful of the people who may hold such beliefs. > > So you're okay with respectfully making people of faith feel unwelcome? > > -- > ~Ethan~
Thanks Ethan for bullseyeing the problem to the leftie-libbie lie called 'secularism' -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list