Creationist Site Says: "Mac Users, You Are Godless Communists!"

TheMacObserver ^ | 4/23/02 | Raena Armitage

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Repent, sinners. Your Macintosh is a tool to promote Godless Communism and anti-Creationist "propaganda", according to an article at OBJECTIVE: Christian Ministries. Dr. Richard Paley, apparently "a teacher of Divinity and Theobiology at Fellowship University," starts out with discussions of the PBS series Evolution and Pokemon, and goes on to say:

However, these propagandists aren't just targeting the young. Take for example Apple Computers, makers of the popular Macintosh line of computers. The real operating system hiding under the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called... Darwin! That's right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! While they currently don't advertise this fact to consumers, it is well known among the computer elite, who are mostly Atheists and Pagans. Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. They try to hide all of this under a facade of shiny, "lickable" buttons, but the truth has finally come out: Apple Computers promote Godless Darwinism and Communism.

Later additions to this article say:

It has been brought to my attention that the Darwin OS mentioned above now has a cartoon mascot (no doubt to influence children) named Hexley (pictured above) -- a platypus dressed as a devil who performs occult magic, i.e. hexes. They're not doing a very good job keeping their ties to the forces of darkness a secret, are they? (snip)

More clues have come in showing the dark nature of Apple Computers. According to one of our readers, the new MacOS X contains another Satanic holdover from the "BSD Unix" OS mentioned above; to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?

Check out the full article for yourself.

[Editor's Note: The article and the Web site hosting the article were both inaccessible as of 12:46 PM CST to TMO staff (Observer Whit noted that the site was down as of 12:30 PM CST). Other Observers report being able to pull up the site, but that it is very slow.]

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[FormerLib]

Gee, I wouldn't call them Godless!

Arrogant bastards, sure, but Godless seems a might strong.

[rdb3]

Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism.

Every time I hear someone mention that Open Source is akin to communism, I can't help but laugh!

[Tribune7]

These letters you now ponder were typed on a Mac, specifically the G4 733 mhz mode. Mac's rule!

[Registered]

If you have an exorcism can I have your old machine?

[Joee]

Just refer to me as "BIG MAC!"

[ppaul]

10-4 Big Mac!

[TheBattman]

Amazing how so many can be fooled here as on some "other" message boards regarding this bit. It's all tied in with the spoof page Landover Baptist

Caution, anyone who is a Christian is likely to not like what they find there - I know I wound up pretty offended.

[quimby]

Every time I hear someone mention that Open Source is akin to communism, I can't help but laugh!

Like monopolies are so capitalistic (and don't occur under communism).

[joesnuffy]

He does have a point... the symbol of the Apple computer is an apple with a bite out of it.
One could stretch a bit (no pun intended) and conjecture that this represents Mans fall from
grace..even celebrates it. The apple bitten is the symbol of mans separation from God.
It is the affirmation of taking in the forbidden fruit (of course Clinton bit but didnt swallow)
the missing chunk swallowed is the joining of satan to man...and sin inculcated. Man who now
possess the knowledge of good and evil...and satan's lie that you will be like God ...
Or Maybe Not.

[Tennessee_Bob]

I thought Landover was hilarious - a spoof, just as it was supposed to be.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

Indexed to the appropriate bump list

[mass55th]

Darwin=Survival of the Fittest

Glad to know my Mac will be around long after your PC burns itself out!

[AmericaUnited]

Whoa, get me out of here before the lightening strikes over tax my surge protector.

[Tennessee_Bob]

LOL!

[Tennessee_Bob]

Image from Mrs. Dora-Jean Hazlett's (Fundamentalist Film Critic & Landover Member) review of The Blair Witch Project.

[aruanan]

Arrogant bastards, sure, but Godless seems a might strong.

Ha ha ha. The first part of the descriptor is more characteristic of PC users who can't conceive of any other operating system. For instance, today in lab meeting, when I announced that I had ordered the PC, called by some in the lab a "real" computer, someone asked, "Oh, we're getting a Mac, too? But nobody in the lab (10 people) uses Mac. Well...except for aruanan," she said. "And Bill (the principal investigator who's paying for it all)," I said. "And Don, and Betty, and Dalida. Looks as though we have some selective perception going on here." "But why do we need a Mac?" she asked. I said that we had to have something that would run Photoshop 7 the way it was supposed to be run (for instance, the entry level model 800MHz G4 is over 25% faster at the standard battery of Photoshop tasks than the 2.0 GHz Pentium 4.) The one most typical thing I've seen in PC users is the complete certainty that the PC is the "real" computer combined with the almost total inability to do anything either on a PC or a Mac than to use a program.

[Hawkeye's Girl]

My iMac is Catholic, just like me :D

[daviddennis]

Check out any number of Mac-based message boards. The Macintosh is without question very popular among those who use it.

I'd call Mercedes-Benz and BMW popular cars, and yet they both have about 1% of the market. Apple has 3.5%.

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