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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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| 481891 | 2006-09-01 02:53:00 | Whenever someone preaches any sort of religion to a group of people in the IT field (or interested in it), they find themselves dueling with an army of athiests. Is there a reason why there is a higher proportion of athiests in IT than in most other professions? Does the high proportion of evil athiest geeks scare off good christians that might be interested in the field? |
Greven (91) | ||
| 481892 | 2006-09-01 03:20:00 | evil athiest geeks V good christians Hoo boy - you trying to start WW 111? | Scouse (83) | ||
| 481893 | 2006-09-01 03:23:00 | Since most IT people are logical. The existence of "God" defies logic, hence most IT people don't believe, they either know or know not. IT people can be binary | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 481894 | 2006-09-01 03:27:00 | I once lanned on occasion with a group of christians at their church, the majority were idiots but there were a couple of guys who were passionate about PC's and very eger to learn. Anyways i stopped lanning with them cause they were about as interesting as reading the newspaper upside down, plus there was a limit to how much christian rock and CS I could handle. Some of the best people in the IT industry ive been involved with have quite active in their g33k communities (ie LANs, online forums etc), and these enviroments can be fairly full on (Ive seen Intel vs AMD debates go for hours at LAN). The few religious people ive met through LANs etc seem to be a bit overwhelmed by the enviroment, could possibly be a reason why there is less religious ppl in the IT field? |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 481895 | 2006-09-01 03:28:00 | Why preach to anyone ... people don't like that... I agree though, evil atheists are far worse than good atheists. You will also find a great deal of atheists in the scientific fields .. I wonder why that is? Although I went to an Apple seminar and I did think that at some point we would all drop our heads and pray ;) |
gibler (49) | ||
| 481896 | 2006-09-01 03:46:00 | Since most IT people are logical. The existence of "God" defies logic, hence most IT people don't believe, they either know or know not. IT people can be binary I agree. Most IT people think logically and rationally. They usually require proof and reasons for why things happen/how things work. Once you apply reason and logical thinking to any religion it falls flat on its face. |
Mackin_NZ (6958) | ||
| 481897 | 2006-09-01 03:49:00 | Im a Christian and I have no problem with games or computer related issues. I would probably call myself a bit of a geek, cause I like to play games for hours on end and LAN with my mates. However, I'd like to see some statistics on the Christain to atheist ratio in the IT industry as I think that that is quite strange. | Fidelius (10676) | ||
| 481898 | 2006-09-01 03:58:00 | It just typed "Christians in IT industry statistics" in Google and see what I got in these results (www.google.co.nz) Quite interesting. :D |
KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
| 481899 | 2006-09-01 04:00:00 | Doubtless there were more Christians in the technology fields until Microsoft brought out Windows 95, with the new Plug and Play system, which was going to eliminate all the problems encountered when installing peripheral devices. It was very quickly renamed Plug and Pray, for the obvious reason. It didn't work reliably for the obvious reason. :groan: When fervent prayers did not get any better results, people turned to logical analysis. :thumbs: Apart from that, what has religion to do with computing? It has no more place in computer work than it has in science. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 481900 | 2006-09-01 04:05:00 | Here is a debate Christian vs Atheist (www.hearye.org) | KiwiTT_NZ (233) | ||
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