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Thread ID: 72148 2006-09-01 02:53:00 Why is IT full of Athiests? Greven (91) PC World Chat
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481961 2006-09-02 08:59:00 Some very interesting posts - especially zquerty.

Good to see that some of you ignored the bait & answered the underlying questions (and those that didn't made the thread entertaining as well as interesting). I'm not a religious person, and I found the trend of religion (or rather the lack of it) in IT quite intriguing.

None has really answered my last question yet though - are christians scared away from the IT industry because it is dominated by athiests? Come to think of it - females in IT is a similar situation - are they scared off because IT is a male dominated profession?

Well, I certainly have no problem with being in an aethiest-dominated industry. Most of my friends are aethiests anyway. You get over it. It certainly does not scare me off. I find that there are very few NZ atheiests who can not accept Christianity as something which others believe in and are entitled to believe in. They're the only kind of aethiests I could ever have a problem with.
george12 (7)
481962 2006-09-02 09:43:00 The problem is that the reverse is not always the case, hence the preaching Agent_24 (57)
481963 2006-09-02 22:14:00 To prove what? that IT atheists are evil? It doesn't help when you start off by calling someone evil, and expecting them to be nice to you.I'm sorry, you misunderstood what I was saying :) When I said it just went to prove the first post, I was meaning the part in the first post that said there appeared to be a large proportion of athiests in IT. I wasn't calling anybody here evil - I don't know anybody here personally, so could never even come close to making that judgment.

Mike.
Mike (15)
481964 2006-09-03 01:43:00 Belief has one good thing going for it: it saves thinking. As Bertrand Russell said (roughly) : Most people would sooner die than think. Many have done exactly that. Graham L (2)
481965 2006-09-03 02:33:00 We never talk about religion at work. I don't know who is one and who isn't.

I don't care what people are as long as they don't ram it down my throat :xmouth:
dolby digital (5073)
481966 2006-09-06 01:01:00 Where is Terry Porrit in all this? I'm sure he knows this one.

ARTIST: Tom Lehrer
TITLE: National Brotherhood Week
Lyrics and Chords


[ Abdim7 = ]

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks
And the black folks hate the white folks
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule

/ E B7 / - E / E7 A / B7 EE7 /

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark
Are dancing cheek to cheek
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school

/ A - / E - / B7 - / E E7 / A - / E - / B7 - EA EB7 EA EB7 /

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks
And the rich folks hate the poor folks
All of my folks hate all of your folks
It's American as apple pie

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans
'Cause it's very chic
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand
You can tolerate him if you try

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Hindus hate the Moslems
And everybody hates the Jews

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-
One-Another-hood Week
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you
It's only for a week, so have no fear
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!

/ A - / E - / B7 - / E E7 / A - / E - / B7 - E Abdim7 /
/ F#7 B7 E - /

From www.guntheranderson.com
JackStraw (6573)
481967 2006-09-06 01:13:00 Good Grief! Murray P (44)
481968 2006-09-06 02:17:00 :groan: (www.albinoblacksheep.com)JackStraw:groan: (www.albinoblacksheep.com) sam m (517)
481969 2006-09-06 02:23:00 Where is Terry Porrit in all this? I'm sure he knows this one.

ARTIST: Tom Lehrer
TITLE: National Brotherhood Week
Lyrics and Chords


[ Abdim7 = ]

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks
And the black folks hate the white folks
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule

/ E B7 / - E / E7 A / B7 EE7 /

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark
Are dancing cheek to cheek
It's fun to eulogise
The people you despise
As long as you don't let 'em in your school

/ A - / E - / B7 - / E E7 / A - / E - / B7 - EA EB7 EA EB7 /

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks
And the rich folks hate the poor folks
All of my folks hate all of your folks
It's American as apple pie

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans
'Cause it's very chic
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand
You can tolerate him if you try

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics
And the Catholics hate the Protestants
And the Hindus hate the Moslem's
And everybody hates the Jews

But during National Brotherhood Week
National Brotherhood Week
It's National Everyone-Smile-At-
One-Another-hood Week
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you
It's only for a week, so have no fear
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!

/ A - / E - / B7 - / E E7 / A - / E - / B7 - E Abdim7 /
/ F#7 B7 E - /

From www.guntheranderson.com
Seems hard for the pion's to recognise the obvious,the above is spot on.
Cicero (40)
481970 2006-09-06 21:56:00 Religion has been the catalyst for started more wars than any other single thing.

Religion is evil, the world would be a far better place without it.

I agree with other posters, IT people are generally logical thinkers.

I hate all religions, but I do have my own god. I just don't claim to have been contacted by him, write a book (bible) and attempt to convince others to follow my personal view of my god.

So I guess I am not technically a Atheists or am I.
Master_Frost (9951)
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