Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Wed, 28 May 2025 16:21:14 -0600, lar3ryca <larry@invalid.ca> wrote:

On 2025-05-27 10:13, Paul S Person wrote:

On Mon, 26 May 2025 10:54:47 -0700, Bobbie Sellers
<bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> wrote:
 

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On 5/26/25 08:37, Paul S Person wrote:

<here, I will try some snipping -- the reference was to a list of
religions that /do/ admit to being religions>

And you somehow left out: atheist, anti-religious bigotry, secular
humanism, and any other religion that denies its own nature.

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I strongly disagree that atheism, for example, is a religion, ...

Feel free to disagree.

Freedom of religion is guaranteed to all in the USA.

Not in the USA? Check your local laws.

Note that many of these admit to being philosophies or even
ideologies. But when those function as a "Myth-OS", they act as a
religion.

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Nor is it a philosophy.

Ah, so you don't believe that atheists are friends of wisdom.
("Philosophy" is "friend (or lover) of wisdom").

But of course it is a philosophy. Theology was originally part of
philosophy, and "God doesn't exist" is a clearly theological
statement.

I don't believe that the world is being run by an intelligent giant
purple octopus either, and you would be hard put to describe that as
either a religion or a philosophy.

Nobody claims that it is. That's the problem with adopting a negative
proposition as the basis of life.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"