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...