Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Tue, 27 May 2025 18:24:27 +0100, Graham <zotzlists@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 27/05/2025 17:04, Paul S Person wrote:

On 26 May 2025 15:53:04 GMT, ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
wrote:
 

>
  I have my dictionary right here, and it says, "An event that
  appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to
  be supernatural in origin or an act of God".
>
  Oops! Sorry, I was being an "intellectualist" again!

 
Just because the intellectuals and atheists won the battle to make
that the definition does not change the reality.

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  It seems to match the Catholic definition, and they are after all the
largest Christian denomination.

They also have a special interest in making them as hard to find as
possible, to keep down the hucksters. And keep the number of new
Saints to a minimum.

But they also have a tendency to keep quiet about popular miracles
that they know are not (by the definition given above) lest they
"disturb the faith of the laity" -- which is to say, the unwashed
masses.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"