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                                        November 5, 2009

Someone like myself who is into hardcore SM
(that is, scientific materialism) finds it
easy to sneer at Christians in general, but
it's worth remembering that there are           These reasonable Christians
Christians out there that don't fit our         are easy to forget about,
usual stereotype very well.                     because of the loud (and
                                                rather ignorant, viscious
There is, for example, Larry Wall, the          and crazy) "fundamentalists"...
creator of Perl, one of the world's great
free/open software projects.

    Someone who has truly "cast his
    bread upon the waters".

    He's not a cross waving Christian,
    nor is he in the closet about it...
    he's just someone who walks the                You might be tempted
    walk without making a big deal out             to blame the
    of it.                                         reasonable ones for
                                                   not making any effort
                                                   to keep Their Own
                                                   under control... but
                                                   remember the history
                                                   of religious
                                                   internecine fighting.

                                                      There are reasons
                                                      the Reasonable are
                                                      inclinced to keep
                                                      quiet, and let
                                                      people find their
                                                      own way.

                                                         And so the discourse
                                                         tends to be dominated
                                                         by the unreasonable.



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