<span class="gmail_quote">On 1/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carlos Alperin</b> <<a href="mailto:calperin@senecacom.net">calperin@senecacom.net</a>> wrote:</span><br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
And, as I said before, I'm not a religious man, but I don't like other<br>people trying to be funny with somebody else traditions or believes.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Personally, I like being funny about traditions and beliefs a whole lot better than I like being overly serious (or worse yet petty) about them!
<br><br>I have never heard of Eid Mubarak, so I thought it was kind of interesting to learn a little bit about it. <br><br>But if I were to bring up a religious subject in a technology forum (or list), I would consider myself to have gotten off rather lightly if the "worst" response I got was simply a funny little play on words such as the "got my goat" comment.
<br><br>Now, if someone came on here and started a "I believe in Religion X and you believe in Religion Y, so YOU ARE DAMNED TO HELL FOR ALL ETERNITY" spiel or on the other hand started a "DON'T YOU (so-and-so) IDIOTS KNOW THERE'S NO GOD" spiel, then sure; that would be annoying and offensive. But nobody did that.
<br><br>I don't understand why people get so worked up about this kind of thing. To me, the idea of you being offended by the "got my goat" joke makes about the same amount of sense as the idea that someone would have been offended by Rehan's original post that started this thread. Although one person might not like to hear jokes about religion, other people might not like to hear about religion at all. I think that either way it's not worth getting particularly upset over.
<br><br>-Rusty<br><br><br>