Scott Adams Suggests Bill Gates For President

gerrysteele writes to point out a recent post to the Dilbert blog, in which Scott Adams discusses the atheist ascendancy in America and rationalizes the need for an atheist leader. From the article: "Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately. I think that in an election cycle or two you will see an atheist business leader emerge as a legitimate candidate for president. And his name will be Bill Gates."

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Re:Keep sexuality away from software

[ArsenneLupin]

Ok, that is fine and good, but then keep also the "straight talk" off this site. No porn jokes (or keep it gender neutral: why does it always have to be scantily clad women to which the stereotypical slashdot geek masturbates), no complaints about "not enough women in our Lug", no jokes about reproductive (in)abilities of geeks (not all sex is reproductive...), etc.

Also, this is not about politics, it's a plug for a site where people with similar interests can meet each other. Just like it is hard for straight nerds to meet girls (girls just aren't interested in computers...), it's just as hard for gay men to meet other gay men that are interested in computers (they do exist, but are rather thinly spread...). Such a site is an attempt (amongst others) to bring such people together.

Also, it may help with technical issues unique to gay people and sites. For example, if you run a gay matchmaking site, you may face unique confidentiality issues due to the need of protecting identities of those wanting to take part in the site, but "still in the closet". Or you may be particularly annoyed at KDE's tendency to yank you to the desktop where a popup just happened (imagine what happens while gayromeo just pops up its "you've been disconnected from the site due to inactivity" window while you showed a coworker some java code in another window... So yes, there are some computing questions which may be specific to that demographic, it's not all politics.

Re:God

[COMON$]

Wow, just wow. IT IS TRADITIONAL, IT IS EVIL!

If you are going to judge my understanding of the bible that is fine, I am used to Gnostics and Athiests proclaiming how much better they know the Koran, Bible, book of Mormon, than the believers. But to say the Bible tells you to kill sinners is beyond an obtuse misunderstanding. Just as ignorant as saying that all atheists are destroying society for their lack of morals. If this is an example of your understanding of scripture, I suggest you sit down with a theologian, or set aside your biases and really read the whole of the bible. I suggest focusing on the difference between Mosaic Law and Divine Law. Also look into Justification vs Sanctification.

As For How many of the Ten Commandments are actually laws in any modern society? Two, maybe three?

And you think society is doing well now? Check divorce rates, the youth entitlement generations, prevalence of STDs, Breakdown of families, the suicide rate, and on and on. As a Christian I attribute this to original sin. As an Atheist, you can attribute it to societal growing pains.

if you'd actually read your Bible, you would know this.

I never get tired of hearing that though, don't blame you for thinking it as I said before most of my fellow Christians are too busy using the Scripture as a weapon (we call that Isogesis, look it up sometime as 99% of Christians will give you a blank stare). Proper interpretation comes from Exogesis although unless you are taught good Theology you don't know how to do this. People spend their entire lives studying hermeneutics, they were called monks. But this is the reason I attribute most people's hate of the bible to. Interesting point though, the more distant someone is from the Scripture, the more likely they are to be agnostic, or atheist. It is a rare person who regularly reads the Bible with an open mind on a regular basis and rejects it all. Too bad, there is a lot of wisdom in there. Heck I am a Christian and I still see the value to the Koran.

Morality is a natural phenomenon; it arises from the need of humans to live together to survive.

It is called pack theory I think, I read a book on it 5-10 years ago. Might be called Instinct theory, many Academics believe it can naturally account for most all moral compasses, but there are certain traits that cannot be accounted for.

You can call me ignorant or whatever you want but you are just judging me because I dont agree with you.

Re:God

[COMON$]

You hit the nail on the head there, problem is, getting people to separate Christianity from Christians.

You must have either been part of a Wisconsin or Missouri Synod.

Now Lutheran practice would remove you from the synod for being unrepentant for any reason. But should not have removed you for being married to a wiccan, if you were a wiccan then they could do it. Just sounds like you were in a very unhealthy church, better to get out of those. You might be much more comfortable in a ELCA Lutheran church if you wanted to stay with Lutherans. They are quite a bit looser in their Church than the other synods, You would absolutely hate Baptist, Catholic, and Pentacostal.

Working off of the fear of hell isnt what should drive you to be moral. Love of your God is. Islam focuses on fear, Christianity, in a well balanced situation, will focus on Love of the Creator and His sacrifice.

Re:God

[COMON$]

I believe in the separation of Church and State. I do not under any circumstances want to go back to a Theocracy. I may be a strong Christian and believe that the best thing for society is heterosexual marriages. That, however, is a church matter and should be enforced at that level. In fact if one reads the Old Testament, we would find that God did not want a Theocracy, He discouraged Kings and that form of govt. But the Israelites insisted because they wanted to be important like all the other nations. Thus the first king was given reign.

Same goes with gays, no worse than I am as a sinner, just a different sin.

Re:God

[COMON$]

I attribute it to science as well. However psychologically we are not doing that well. How do we fix it? The answer depends on your theological preference.