Posted by:
iceman9090
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Date: December 21, 2020 12:54AM
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Christianity is not responsible – A conversation with a guy from extremetech
SUMMARY:
I would like to have your input, whether you are mormon, christian, atheist, pantheist and so on.
The question is:
is christianity responsible for anything.
For example (1), when person X is motivated to become a priest and build his own church, is christianity responsible for that?
For example (2), when person X is motivated to blow up an abortion clinic, is christianity responsible.
I invited that person here to come and chat with us.
PLAYBACK of the conversation:
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William Barath:
You mean x265, the encoder. H.265 is the ITU Video coding standard, not a piece of software. It's like saying that Christianity killed people in the Holy Wars, where in reality it was people who killed people.
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Jack324:
+William Barath:
That's a poor comparison. Christianity was why christians killed people in the crusades/holy wars. There is no christianity without the people. The cause of death was murder by christians, because of christianity. So in effect christianity was what killed those people.
A better analogy would be measuring something with the description of a ruler rather than with an actual ruler.
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William Barath:
+Jack324:
As with all wars, it was pride, greed, and fear among the leadership which led to the Holy Wars. Faith was the scapegoat. It's a fair analogy because ITU H.265 is a concept, x265, installed on the M1, is a functional implementation with real-world effects. Christianity is a concept. Indoctrined minions are functional implementations with real-world effects. The pros and cons of those effects aren't in scope of this conversation.
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Jack324:
+William Barath:
In my experience pride, greed and fear is the very backbone of all organized religion, none less so than christianity. Faith wasn't the scape goat, it was the reason why people died. The leadership wasn't doing the killing, it was the god fearing soldiers that believed it made them a good Christian to kill in the name of god. My point still stands, christianity killed those people, if it didn't exist those people would not have died for nothing more than not believing in the christian god. Your analogy still sucks.
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and the conversation goes on. I didn’t post what I said. It’s just too long.
Since I like it when multiple people give their input, rather than have a small bubble conversation between 2 or 3 people, I am posting it here.
Source:
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/318376-apples-m1-crushes-windows-on-arm-in-64-bit-benchmarks~~~~iceman9090