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Instead of lamenting his weird
nature, Stallman found ways to celebrate it. In 1977,
while attending a science-fiction convention, he came
across a woman selling custom-made buttons. Excited,
Stallman ordered a button with the words "Impeach God"
emblazoned on it.
For Stallman, the "Impeach God" message worked on many
levels. An atheist since early childhood, Stallman
first saw it as an attempt to set a "second front" in
the ongoing debate on religion. "Back then everybody
was arguing about God being dead or alive," Stallman
recalls. "`Impeach God' approached the subject of God
from a completely different viewpoint. If God was so
powerful as to create the world and yet do nothing to
correct the problems in it, why would we ever want to
worship such a God? Wouldn't it be better to put him on trial?"
At the same time, "Impeach God" was a satirical take on
America and the American political system. The
Watergate scandal of the 1970s affected Stallman
deeply. As a child, Stallman had grown up mistrusting
authority.


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