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I've never objected to being managed by anybody with an arts degree and never will. English, communications, philosophy, have at it. Some of my best technical m

I've never objected to being managed by anybody with an arts degree and never will. English, communications, philosophy, have at it. Some of my best technical managers majored in English. Theology says something specific about how you process reality.

mavelikara 5y ago
> Theology says something specific about how you process reality. I will point out that one of the founders of a core CS discipline have written books [1] on what can be called theology. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Works_regarding_his_religious_beliefs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Works_regarding_h...
- plussed_reader 5y ago
  Ok, but that wasn't his focus. Your point? We all have musings that cross domains; why does this persons book hold significance to you for this thread?
  - mavelikara 5y ago
    Sorry, this wasn't clear enough to you in my original comment. My point was that judging someone's ability to do CS negatively by their interest in theology, as presented by the person I was replying to, is refuted by a well-known example. Makes sense now?
beaconstudios 5y ago
Not necessarily - theology is just philosophy. Biblical literalism is an almost uniquely American phenomenon, there are plenty of Christians around the world and in the US who don't believe the earth was literally created 6000 years ago.
- StrictDabbler 5y ago
  Theology is just philosophy. Applied Theology is an American evangelist field of study that focuses on shaping your life and the world around you to operate according to the will and word of the Christian Evangelist god.
  - beaconstudios 5y ago
    Looks to me like a degree for people intending to become a priest/minister/etc. Oxford (UK): https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mth-applied-theology https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mth-applied... California Baptist: https://calbaptist.edu/programs/bachelor-of-applied-theology/ https://calbaptist.edu/programs/bachelor-of-applied-theology...
    - StrictDabbler 5y ago
      From your second link: "Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers." This is one of those very frustrating conversations to have online, not that different from people saying "but it's the People's Democratic Republic of whatever." The Baptist thing called "applied theology" is a part of the Dominionist movement. Fundamentally it's a theocratic endeavor. I agree that theology has been used in a thousand ways across two thousand years and I'm sad that if you have a degree in "Applied Theology" from a small religious college in the Midwest it's definitely not just "I was thinking of becoming a minister." But dominionism is a real thing. People major in it, they drop out, they get other jobs, and then you have this record of their beliefs right there on their resumes. It'd be easier if they had no degree at all.
      - beaconstudios 5y ago
        you could well be right that this is a dominion thing, though I don't see anything suggesting such - but then I can imagine it's not openly promoted, if so. > Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers I don't see an issue with this, if discipling unbelievers means something similar to promoting the church, or missionary-esque behaviour (of the non-colonial form, obviously). If it means how to deal with atheists in a theocracy then I'm not a fan.

mavelikara 5y ago

> Theology says something specific about how you process reality. I will point out that one of the founders of a core CS discipline have written books [1] on what can be called theology. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Works_regarding_his_religious_beliefs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Works_regarding_h...

plussed_reader 5y ago
Ok, but that wasn't his focus. Your point? We all have musings that cross domains; why does this persons book hold significance to you for this thread?
- mavelikara 5y ago
  Sorry, this wasn't clear enough to you in my original comment. My point was that judging someone's ability to do CS negatively by their interest in theology, as presented by the person I was replying to, is refuted by a well-known example. Makes sense now?

beaconstudios 5y ago

Not necessarily - theology is just philosophy. Biblical literalism is an almost uniquely American phenomenon, there are plenty of Christians around the world and in the US who don't believe the earth was literally created 6000 years ago.

StrictDabbler 5y ago
Theology is just philosophy. Applied Theology is an American evangelist field of study that focuses on shaping your life and the world around you to operate according to the will and word of the Christian Evangelist god.
- beaconstudios 5y ago
  Looks to me like a degree for people intending to become a priest/minister/etc. Oxford (UK): https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mth-applied-theology https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/mth-applied... California Baptist: https://calbaptist.edu/programs/bachelor-of-applied-theology/ https://calbaptist.edu/programs/bachelor-of-applied-theology...
  - StrictDabbler 5y ago
    From your second link: "Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers." This is one of those very frustrating conversations to have online, not that different from people saying "but it's the People's Democratic Republic of whatever." The Baptist thing called "applied theology" is a part of the Dominionist movement. Fundamentally it's a theocratic endeavor. I agree that theology has been used in a thousand ways across two thousand years and I'm sad that if you have a degree in "Applied Theology" from a small religious college in the Midwest it's definitely not just "I was thinking of becoming a minister." But dominionism is a real thing. People major in it, they drop out, they get other jobs, and then you have this record of their beliefs right there on their resumes. It'd be easier if they had no degree at all.
    - beaconstudios 5y ago
      you could well be right that this is a dominion thing, though I don't see anything suggesting such - but then I can imagine it's not openly promoted, if so. > Everything from preaching to media technology, from helping with funerals to discipling [sic] unbelievers I don't see an issue with this, if discipling unbelievers means something similar to promoting the church, or missionary-esque behaviour (of the non-colonial form, obviously). If it means how to deal with atheists in a theocracy then I'm not a fan.