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[–] flumph@programming.dev 339 points 11 months ago (6 children)

These people don't even read their own literature. The Catholic church's ban on alchemy is about falsely claiming something is a valuable metal in order to pay for debts. It has nothing to do with the occult -- the ban was because it's a sin to lie / cheat / steal. A saint is even on record saying that alchemical gold is ok if the end if product is real gold.

With that context, of course God doesn't give a shit if you use SQLAlchemy as long as you aren't using it to defraud people. If you were defrauding people, it wouldn't matter what tool you used.

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[–] bh11235@infosec.pub 57 points 11 months ago

Now of course one could make some damning argument about the state of the tech industry in practice, resulting in one of those bell curve memes with "using SQLalchemy is a sin" on both far sides and "noooo it's just a name it's fine there's no fraud involved" in the middle

[–] 0x4E4F@infosec.pub 47 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you were defrauding people, it wouldn't matter what tool you used.

Stays silent while coding the JezuzLovezU worm...

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jesus, he knows me, and he knows I'm right

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 11 months ago

Well, god generally doesn't give a shit at all if he exists, so there's that.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

God would have to exist to give any shits at all

[–] Naich@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I'm shocked that a person who thinks the name of a piece of software can harm them doesn't understand their own religion.

[–] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

And here i thought they banned alchemy because they learned from a copper trader.