Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On 30/05/25 01:36, Paul S Person wrote:

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

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.

If an atheist adopted "there are no gods" as the _basis_of_life_, that
perhaps could be called a religious position; but that would be a very
rare atheist. The more typical position "gods, in the unlikely event
that any exist, are irrelevant to me" is not a "basis of life" kind of
statement.
Most atheists are more focused on reality than fantasies.
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Newcastle, NSW