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In my experience, "godbotherer" is a pejorative description of religious people generally, usually Christians. If "authoritarian" is referring to the "subsettin
by trelane 4y ago
In my experience, "godbotherer" is a pejorative description of religious people generally, usually Christians. If "authoritarian" is referring to the "subsetting" p4s, no, it was not at all clear that it was intended to subset rather than describe. I definitely see it as describing rather than subsetting.
This read mostly as a "those damn Evangelicals, am I right?" which is a common enough sentiment, especially in tech circles.
- 082349872349872 4y agoSorry, I had thought the footnote highlighting the importance of the adjective, the mention of Carter (for those unaware of last century's US politics: an evangelical who became President) as being in a different camp from the authoritarian camp, and the image of real evangelicals as having been hijacked, would all have sufficed to convey the subsetting usage, but I erred. peccavi
- trelane 4y agoNo worries. In the interactions, you're much less trollish than I first took you as. Perhaps we can all get along after all. :) Cheers!
- kelnos 4y agoTo me, "godbotherer" is a pejorative term specifically referring to people who try to convert others to their religion (in annoying and intrusive ways), not religious people in general.