Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:00:32 +1000, Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
wrote:

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

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

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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.

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Nobody claims that it is. That's the problem with adopting a
negative proposition as the basis of life.

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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.
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Most atheists are more focused on reality than fantasies.

A reality which, in their belief, includes no gods. Or, more commonly,
excludes /one/ God, because as good members of a traditionally
Christian culture, they only know of one God to not believe in.

And some are even more specific. On a different newgroup, we would
occasionally get a new atheist whose efforts were focused on dissing
the Pope. Imagine his surprise when pretty much everybody agreed with
them (most of the Christians present were Protestants, who have a long
history of dissing the Pope).

These were not, of course, atheists. They were lapsed Roman Catholics
who, as true sons [and I mean sons, as far as I can recall and could
tell at the time] of the Church, believed that the only Christian
church was the Roman church. All others were "sects" and without
validity and so ignorable.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"