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by empthought 38 days ago
1. There is no religious affiliation for this project, official or otherwise. It is not “religious software.” The project founder is a Christian, that’s all.

2. You clearly are bigoted against Christians and likely all religious people. Every comment is infused with bigotry. You likely don’t even notice it because you’re swimming in it like a fish.

3. You are free to ignore the code of ethics and the software as much as you like. The code of ethics is not intended to apply to you. This is all clearly spelled out in the document, but you saw the word “Christ” and let your prejudice guide you instead of exercising basic reading comprehension.

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If you say so. You seem desperate to cast me as a bigot to explain away my objections. Since we're assuming things about each other's character now, I'm just going to assume you follow this religion and feel attacked by my objection to it being officially adopted by a database library. God forbid, right? Oh well, I've endured a lot worse from you people. Goodbye.
I am an atheist.

There's no desperation and no casting here. I am just pointing out objective facts.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bigotry

> stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

You:

> But this is a SQL database engine and they chose to publicly affiliate it with religion. That's concerning. I've been considering switching to H2 for a while now to avoid depending on a fat-jar full of binaries. This nonsense has persuaded me to make that switch.

It's textbook. Your decision is not based on any actual technical consideration, but rather "stubborn and complete intolerance." You can't conceive of a publicly Christian person who wouldn't use the software they wrote to somehow attack you, even though Dr. Hipp would never dream of doing anything like that.

Why can't you conceive of this? Because of your bigotry.

> stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

What an odd definition, where did you get it from? Bigotry is being unreasonably intolerant. Your definition would cast intolerance of naziism as bigotry (Godwin's Law, yes, I know). But this doesn't surprise me since you don't seem to understand what "goodbye" means either. It's a shame this site has no equivalent to a block feature.

We're not talking about Nazis though, are we? We're talking about well over two billion people (possibly more than six billion if it extends beyond Christianity). Your prejudice against them is almost prima facie unreasonable.