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I don’t know, wouldn’t you be pissed if you tried to search your browser history for “gay” and nothing was found? After all, that’s the threat model you’re proposing that you’re worried about — the thinnest of excuses for your clear and deep bigotry.

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When I wrote my example, I was more thinking of database and table names, the schema itself, rather than cell content. There are already various limitations on such things, usually in the form of reserved prefixes. It doesn't seem out of the realm of possibility that a piece of software that officially affiliates itself with a particular religion might infuse that religion within itself. In fact, I find it suspicious that you seem to disregard this possibility entirely. Most explicitly religious software does this.

Instead, you attempt this weird switcheroo where I'm a bigot? Let's recap: a piece of software has officially affiliated itself with a religion that has made no secret of thinking we're evil and persecuting us for it for multiple millennia. I state that this is off putting and wish to switch to alternative software in my own projects. And you call me a bigot for it. Great job, Sherlock.

1. There is no religious affiliation for this project, official or otherwise. It is not “religious software.” The project founder is a Christian, that’s all.

2. You clearly are bigoted against Christians and likely all religious people. Every comment is infused with bigotry. You likely don’t even notice it because you’re swimming in it like a fish.

3. You are free to ignore the code of ethics and the software as much as you like. The code of ethics is not intended to apply to you. This is all clearly spelled out in the document, but you saw the word “Christ” and let your prejudice guide you instead of exercising basic reading comprehension.

If you say so. You seem desperate to cast me as a bigot to explain away my objections. Since we're assuming things about each other's character now, I'm just going to assume you follow this religion and feel attacked by my objection to it being officially adopted by a database library. God forbid, right? Oh well, I've endured a lot worse from you people. Goodbye.

I am an atheist.

There's no desperation and no casting here. I am just pointing out objective facts.

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bigotry

> stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

You:

> But this is a SQL database engine and they chose to publicly affiliate it with religion. That's concerning. I've been considering switching to H2 for a while now to avoid depending on a fat-jar full of binaries. This nonsense has persuaded me to make that switch.

It's textbook. Your decision is not based on any actual technical consideration, but rather "stubborn and complete intolerance." You can't conceive of a publicly Christian person who wouldn't use the software they wrote to somehow attack you, even though Dr. Hipp would never dream of doing anything like that.

Why can't you conceive of this? Because of your bigotry.

> stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.

What an odd definition, where did you get it from? Bigotry is being unreasonably intolerant. Your definition would cast intolerance of naziism as bigotry (Godwin's Law, yes, I know). But this doesn't surprise me since you don't seem to understand what "goodbye" means either. It's a shame this site has no equivalent to a block feature.

We're not talking about Nazis though, are we? We're talking about well over two billion people (possibly more than six billion if it extends beyond Christianity). Your prejudice against them is almost prima facie unreasonable.

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