Why would an " intolerant", " narrow-minded", " bigot", i.e. Christian be interested in being part of such an open, free thinking project?
Well for starters, I have recently found a desire to live out some bible based principals to the fullest extent possible.
I believe the principals expressed in these two passages coincide well with the stated goals and purpose of this web project. I have been very impressed by the quality of many of the articles I have read at this site (in fact my first exposure to the existence of Wikipedia was a google search on lenses while I was doing research on creating a realistic model of a magnifying glass using POV-Ray.) It is my sincere hope that this site is around for a very long time and becomes the valuable resource to the community of "open" computer users it is intended to be.
I fully support Wikipedia's policy of NPOV and encourage users to examine my contributions to ensure I am successful in adhering to it, as from time to time, I will be examining yours as well. Feel free to edit mercilessly, but PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! take the time to give me a little feed back as to how I can improve my writing to better meet this honorable standard. At present, I plan to avoid visiting articles I KNOW will be controversial as I am sure they are already "hot" enough. I am more interested in the accuracy of the technical articles at this time any how.
Actually, I believe God is a big boy (apologies to the feminists) and can take care of himself.
Apologies to the religionists if this seems like a cop-out. Apologies to the atheists if this seems like a threat.
In regards to the supposed need for censorship of this site...
If I believe in God, then I must also believe that he himself must be tolerant of differences in ideas (at least temporarily) otherwise there would be lots of lightning bolts flying around. In fact, I would probably be trying to hop out of the way myself more often than not. I believe this is an important part of the Christian concept of grace.
Why would an " intolerant", " narrow-minded", " bigot", i.e. Christian be interested in being part of such an open, free thinking project?
Well for starters, I have recently found a desire to live out some bible based principals to the fullest extent possible.
I believe the principals expressed in these two passages coincide well with the stated goals and purpose of this web project. I have been very impressed by the quality of many of the articles I have read at this site (in fact my first exposure to the existence of Wikipedia was a google search on lenses while I was doing research on creating a realistic model of a magnifying glass using POV-Ray.) It is my sincere hope that this site is around for a very long time and becomes the valuable resource to the community of "open" computer users it is intended to be.
I fully support Wikipedia's policy of NPOV and encourage users to examine my contributions to ensure I am successful in adhering to it, as from time to time, I will be examining yours as well. Feel free to edit mercilessly, but PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! take the time to give me a little feed back as to how I can improve my writing to better meet this honorable standard. At present, I plan to avoid visiting articles I KNOW will be controversial as I am sure they are already "hot" enough. I am more interested in the accuracy of the technical articles at this time any how.
Actually, I believe God is a big boy (apologies to the feminists) and can take care of himself.
Apologies to the religionists if this seems like a cop-out. Apologies to the atheists if this seems like a threat.
In regards to the supposed need for censorship of this site...
If I believe in God, then I must also believe that he himself must be tolerant of differences in ideas (at least temporarily) otherwise there would be lots of lightning bolts flying around. In fact, I would probably be trying to hop out of the way myself more often than not. I believe this is an important part of the Christian concept of grace.