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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • For example : I write in French. It wasn’t easy for me to have a way to type É or Ç. Tmux wasn’t easy to configure. It took time to understand how to use USB drives. And now I didn’t use it for some time, and I’d have everything to learn again if I had to turn it on.

    I’m no computer scientist. All these things may be trivial for someone who works with computers, but it’s not my case 😅.













  • “No God before me” can have, and does have in the history of Christianity, three possible interpretations.

    • the exclusivist one (Evangelical churches mainly): the Christian God is the only God, you have to confess him directly to be saved.
    • the inclusivist one (mainly the Catholic church, and some Protestants), the Christian God is the only God, but you can unknowingly pray him when you pray an other God within other traditions, in other words you can be Christian without knowing it.
    • the pluralistic one (other Protestants), most religions are equally valuable, but if you are Christian you should pray only the Christian God.

    Of course this is just a model, all positions are deeper than that and most people mix two or even the three models. I don’t know where the Orthodox Churches stand.

    For myself, I tend to be somewhere between the second and the third model.




  • Or seriously enough to think about it, not just swallow everything. Christianity is a religion who praised critical thinking for centuries because the Bible is a book which should be studied. It was written by intelligent people who made a point to let contradictions and diverse points of view in order to let the reader decide.