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Because English speakers buy the most computer books, right? and "bible" to an English speaker really connotes "superhandbook!" |
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Better yet, how about a religion you could program yourself, based on your particular emotional needs? Then you wouldn't have to spend all that time in the Yellow Pages, leafing through all those various denominations-of-denominations, looking for the one you happened to agree with. |
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For devout libertarians, there could be "XML Shrugged". |
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Coming soon from ITG Books: "DIY Religion for Dummies". |
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"If you don't believe in something, you will fall for anything." |
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The word "bible" comes from the Latin noun "biblia", meaning "book". "Koran" or "Quran" comes from the Arabic verb meaning "to read". |
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As long as you're naming something, you might as well pick the noun... |
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"Oh, nononono." I just talked to someone who has been working on encoding the Quran to Unicode; this
was his reaction to using the Quran as a metaphor along the lines of "bible". |
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Different religions place different importance on different things; while bibles have a long tradition of rewordings, mistakes, and translations, muslims are terribly picky about the exact, untouched, preservation of every character of their holy book, and apparently that extends to a strong dislike for the use of Koran as a metaphor. |
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That should even out the fatwa I've put on Bill Gates for releasing Win98. |
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Let's not forget L. Ron Hubbard and his Dianetics spawn |
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Well, as we already have "The Tao of Programming" and "Zen and the Art of the Internet"... |
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