Sure, post about whatever you want. I’ll either subscribe or not. Definitely not saying you shouldn’t post about your beliefs if you choose to. However you did specifically include my blog in the list of blogs you were calling out and you did frame the blog post within the context of your beliefs.

Jon.

It’s too bad swearing has become more common in society.

It’s nice to see people like yourself adhering to a higher standard. Keep it up.

Even more profane is that there are millions of “christians” who are happy to incarcerate, maim or murder other people who do not follow their insane belief system.

Violence done to people in this guise is the most profane of all curses, and right now y’all are in the middle easy slaughtering brown people by the score.

When you endorse that by quoting “scripture” you are more profane than any of those you complain about.

Thanks for your response. I enjoy reading your blog, and I particularly liked your recent post about your work getting the SpaceNavigator working with Lego MindStorms. I taught a short course to an elementary school class with the 1.0 MindStorms robots and it was a lot of fun.

This blog isn’t the avenue I typically choose for sharing my religious beliefs, however given the circumstances of what I’m speaking about, something that I see as a moral issue involving the developer community, it seemed appropriate to me. It would feel wrong to me to claim a moral position on an issue without disclosing the basis for my morality. And God is the basis for my moral beliefs.

I can certainly respect your preference not to read about personal beliefs on technical blogs, however I believe that a blog is a personal thing and like you said regarding twitter, people are free to read it or not. I hope that you will continue reading it, however if not I certainly won’t be offended. If I wasn’t offended after you beating me three times in a row in WeeWar, I certainly won’t be offended by you unsubscribing from my blog. : )

Likewise I hope that no one is offended by my challenge. Everyone is certainly free to use whatever type of language that they feel is appropriate for their blogs. Just as everyone is free to decide which blogs they will and won’t read.

I try to keep my blog relatively professional. A quick google on site:toxicsoftware.com shows up just one mild profanity. That’s how I intend to keep _MY_ blog. But if my language on twitter offends you then please don’t hesitate to click that “stop following” button. It is rare that I have anything interesting to say on twitter anyway so you wont be missing much.

While I can kind of appreciate your motive, you really lost what little sympathy I had as soon as you dismissed the argument by referring to your “higher power”. Personally I find discussion of personal beliefs and opinions in technical blogs annoying and often (as in this case) offensive.