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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>religious issues</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="../R.html" title="R"/><link rel="previous" href="religion-of-CHI.html" title="religion of CHI"/><link rel="next" href="replicator.html" title="replicator"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">religious issues</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="religion-of-CHI.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">R</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="replicator.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="religious-issues"/><dt xmlns="" id="religious-issues"><b>religious issues</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Questions which seemingly cannot be raised without touching off
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<a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a>, such as “<span class="quote">What is the best operating
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system (or editor, language, architecture, shell, mail reader, news
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reader)?</span>”, “<span class="quote">What about that Heinlein guy, eh?</span>”,
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“<span class="quote">What should we add to the new Jargon File?</span>” See
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<a href="../H/holy-wars.html"><i class="glossterm">holy wars</i></a>; see also <a href="../T/theology.html"><i class="glossterm">theology</i></a>,
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<a href="../B/bigot.html"><i class="glossterm">bigot</i></a>, and compare
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<a href="rathole.html"><i class="glossterm">rathole</i></a>.</p><p>This term is a prime example of
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<a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a>. People actually develop the most amazing and
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religiously intense attachments to their tools, even when the tools are
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intangible. The most constructive thing one can do when one stumbles into
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the crossfire is mumble <a href="../G/Get-a-life-.html"><i class="glossterm">Get a life!</i></a> and leave
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— unless, of course, one's <span class="emphasis"><em>own</em></span> unassailably
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rational and obviously correct choices are being slammed.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="religion-of-CHI.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../R.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="replicator.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">religion of CHI </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> replicator</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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