prog: (norton)
prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2009-01-20 12:53 pm

To quote a friend's .sig file

"Good job everybody."

Also:

• Is this the first time a sitting U.S. president gave a shout-out to nonreligious Americans in a major speech? (He used the word 'non-believers', which I also approve of.)

• I was glad that there didn't seem to be much chanting after his speech. The time for that stuff is done; now is the time to get to work.

[identity profile] ahkond.livejournal.com 2009-01-20 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
And I'm not about to change my language to antagonize people who are not my enemies, but are merely deluded, for the sake of the semantics of words that demonstrably mean different things to different people.

I wasn't talking about not wanting to change people's beliefs in human rights; I was talking about not wanting to dissuade people about the existence of deities.