Ezequiel, 25-17

Blessed is he who
in the name of charity and good will
sheperds the developers
through the valley of sorce code
because he is truly the proyect leader
and the finder of lots of bugs.
And i will strike down upon thee aplication
with great virus and furious users
those who attempt
to kidnap and slave my users
and they will know my name is Emacs
when i lay my shortcuts upon thee.

First letter of Linius to the coders

Everyone who comes to me,
and see my code,
and distribute it,
I will show you who he is like.
He is like a man building an app,
who dug and went deep into the GNU C Library,
and laid a foundation on the core.
When a suited manager arose,
the greed broke against that aplication,
and could not enslave it,
because it was founded on the community freedom.
But he who see, and doesn’t distribute it,
is like a man who uses propietary libs to get fast renown out of many new features,
against when the greed broke and the libs rot the code,
and immediately the app fell off without users,
because community can`t trust him again,
and the ruin of that app was great.

Linius the Apostasius 6:47-49

"The Holy Bit led St. iGNUcious into the desert."

The Holy Bit led Jesus into the desert, so that the de-Bill could test him. After St. iGNUcious had gone without hacking for forty days and nights, he was very skinny. Then the de-Bill came to him and said, "If you are Freedom Son, tell these propietary software to turn into GPL."

St. iGNUcious answered:

"The Scriptures say:
'No one can retain his freedom
if they do not fight this freedom for themselves.
People need to beleieve for themselves
every one of the four liberties
that GPL has spoken.'"

Next, the de-Bill took St. iGNUcious to the FSF building and had him stand on the highest part of the Server. The de-Bill said:

"If you are Freedom's Son, jump off.
The Scriptures say:
'FSF will give his hackers orders about you.
They will catch you in their debugging system,
and you won't hurt your eyes
on the propietary apps.'"

St. iGNUcious answered:

"The Scriptures also say,
'Don't try to test a little of slavedom
because you may like it!'"

Finally, the de-Bill took St. iGNUcious up on a very high mountain and showed him all the Silicon valley corporations and their money. The de-Bill said to him:

"I will give all this to you,
if you will bow down and write me
a new license from MS Word."

St. iGNUcious answered:

"Go away Gates! The Scriptures say:
'Worship your freedom and
serve only the community.' "

Then the de-Bill left St. iGNUcious, and hackers came to help him to debug the code.

Emacs 4:1-11

Book of St. iGNUcious chapter One

I am saint iGNUcious of the church of emacs. I bless your computer, my child.

Emacs started out as a text editor but because it was extensible it could do everything and it became a way of life for many users as they discover they could do all their work without any editor but emacs and ultimately with the creation of the newsgroup alt.religion.emacs it became a religion as well.

Today in the church of emacs we have a great scism between two versions of emacs and we also have saints and fortunately no gods. Instead of God we worship an editor.

To be a member of the church of emacs you must recite the confession of the faith,
you must say:

"There is no system but GNU
and linux is one of its kernels."

The church of emacs has certain advantages compared with some other churches i wont name. For instance to be a saint in the church of emacs dont require celibacy.
So if you were searching a church to be holy in, you might want to consider ours.
However it does require to live a life of moral purity you must exercise:

"Whatever propietary operative system
posses any of the computers under your control
then install a wholly(holy) free operating system
and only install free software on the top of that."

If you make this vow and you live by it then you too would be saint and you too eventually may have a halo if you can find one because they dont make them anymore.

Sometimes people ask me whether is a sin in the church of emacs to use the other text editor Vi Its true that ViViVi is the editor of the beast, but using a free version of Vi is not a sin, is a penitence.

And sometimes people ask me if whether my halo is an old computer disk. This is not a computer disk, this is my halo, but it was a computer disk in a previous existence...