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Because telling everyone that they have to have religion is such a strong compulsion that people can't even resist doing it in an article supposedly aimed at pr
by slurgfest 14y ago
Because telling everyone that they have to have religion is such a strong compulsion that people can't even resist doing it in an article supposedly aimed at programmers.
- crazypyro 14y agoHe very clearly states its not about religion and that he isn't religious. Just a poor title.
- slurgfest 14y agoBut like "spirit," "spiritual" is still really a religious word. If (hypothetically) I just happen to think that the universe operates according to normal physical principles, with no gods or magic, and that what is important is life on earth, then I am not "spiritual" and thus, according to this guy, I am a worse programmer. This is just social pressure to conform to certain kinds of ideas. The fact that the word "spiritual" allows me to self-label as religious even if I don't belong to a large institution like the Catholic church is not very helpful if I am just not religious. And why should I have to be?