Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

On Fri, 30 May 2025 11:51:40 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

J. J. Lodder <jjlxa32@xs4all.nl> wrote:

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Yes. Freedom of religion is fine,
but freedom from religion is far more important,

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In the end, they are really the same thing.  You don't get freedom to enjoy
your religion without the freedom from mine.
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Far too many religious people don't understand this.  But of course many
of the people who founded the country were Puritans who moved to Holland to
enjoy religious freedom and discovered that they didn't actually want
religious freedom at all, so long as it meant freedom for others as well.
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So they took themselves to America.

This was actually covered when I took American History in (IIRC)
Junior High (grades 7 through 9).

I've read the responses and they were all very helpful.

The teacher, of course, used the correct term. He made it clear that
by "religious freedom" was meant "freedom to be the only religion
(with Judaism sometimes tolerated, sometimes not)". He extended this
to the second generation, and the development of the Protestant Work
Ethic. Among other items.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"