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Imagine feeling the bizarre compulsion to turn every discussion about technology on HN into yet another tedious political argument.
by pluto9 8y ago
Imagine feeling the bizarre compulsion to turn every discussion about technology on HN into yet another tedious political argument.
- behringer 8y agoThe company themselves chose this political stance, not the community around them.
- Bizarro 8y agoNo, the grandparent's political stance is to be outraged at anybody he/she disagrees with and has an unhealthy obsession to blurt it out on discussions that aren't political.
- monocasa 8y agoAll discussions are political. The only question is whether or not the politics at hand affect you. And to quote Chick-fil-a's CEO: "Jesus had a lot of things to say about people who work and live in the business community … Our work should be an act of worship. Our work should be our mission field." So he sees everything they do as political as well.
- unit91 8y agoNot political. Religious. For those of us who are Christians, our politics are driven by our religion, not the other way around. The Heidelberg Catechism sums it up well: > Q. What is your only comfort in life and in death? > A. That I am not my own, but belong — body and soul, in life and in death — to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.
- monocasa 8y agoWas funding a lobbying group to reinstitute the death penalty for homosexuality in Uganda a reflection of their religious principles or their political ones?
- unit91 8y agomonocasa, HN won't let me reply to your next comment, but regarding: > a reflection of their religious principles or their political ones This is actually a common misunderstanding and what I'm trying to explain. "Religious principles OR political principles" means there are actually (at least) TWO categories of ideas a person holds, with specific items (homosexuality, death penalty, etc.) falling inside one of those categories. That's a secular worldview, and it isn't how Christians think. We have one category: God. God is sovereign, he owns everything including me. As Thomas Aquinas said "all truth is God's truth". When we're being consistent (key caveat), we approach all issues as "what does God want me to do?". Political activities follow from there. We often disagree about those secondary conclusions (what God wants from us regarding issue X), but not the core starting point (ultimate allegiance is to God alone).
- monocasa 8y ago> This is actually a common misunderstanding and what I'm trying to explain. "Religious principles OR political principles" means there are actually (at least) TWO categories of ideas a person holds, with specific items (homosexuality, death penalty, etc.) falling inside one of those categories. > That's a secular worldview, and it isn't how Christians think And yet literally the previous comment you say > Not political. Religious. So which is it?
- unit91 8y agoI was responding to scope of the statement: > So he sees everything they do as political as well. Obviously we have political views, but they're a only subset of religious views. By analogy, geometry exists and is a legitimate field of study. But if you said "all mathematicians think about is geometry" that would be false because it's too narrow in scope. If he's consistent in his Christian worldview "he sees everything they do as religious as well" would have been true.
- behringer 8y agoThere's nothing Christian about the board at Chick-Fil-A
- sheepmullet 8y ago> All discussions are political. Nonsense. A certain subset of our society insists on making everything political. Most of us don’t like it because it ruins otherwise interesting conversations.
- monocasa 8y agoOr... your privilege allows you to ignore the political consequences of most conversations. What do you think politics is? Like an actual definition.
- sheepmullet 8y ago> Or... your privilege allows you to ignore the political consequences of most conversations. What political consequences are there to most conversations?
- monocasa 8y agoOnce again, define 'politics'.
- throwaway82729 8y agoWhy is their stance deemed as political and not humanitarian?
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