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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Religion</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="appendixb.html" title="Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker"/><link rel="previous" href="demographics.html" title="Gender and Ethnicity"/><link rel="next" href="chemicals.html" title="Ceremonial Chemicals"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Religion</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demographics.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="chemicals.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="religion"/>Religion</h2></div></div><div/></div><p>Agnostic. Atheist. Non-observant Jewish. Neo-pagan. Very commonly,
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three or more of these are combined in the same person. Conventional
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faith-holding Christianity is rare though not unknown.</p><p>Even hackers who identify with a religious affiliation tend to be
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relaxed about it, hostile to organized religion in general and all forms of
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religious bigotry in particular. Many enjoy ‘parody’ religions
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such as Discordianism and the Church of the SubGenius.</p><p>Also, many hackers are influenced to varying degrees by Zen Buddhism or
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(less commonly) Taoism, and blend them easily with their ‘native’
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religions.</p><p>There is a definite strain of mystical, almost Gnostic sensibility that
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shows up even among those hackers not actively involved with neo-paganism,
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Discordianism, or Zen. Hacker folklore that pays homage to
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‘wizards’ and speaks of incantations and demons has too much
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psychological truthfulness about it to be entirely a joke. </p></div><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="demographics.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="appendixb.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="chemicals.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Gender and Ethnicity </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Ceremonial Chemicals</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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