Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned

In article <101d9jh$nmg$1@panix2.panix.com>,
 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

Robert Woodward  <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
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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,

 
In the end, they are really the same thing.  You don't get freedom to enjoy
your religion without the freedom from mine.
 
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.
 
So they took themselves to America.

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Ahem, you are confusing the Pilgrims (1620) with the Puritans (1630).
They were two different groups of people (the Puritans being more
numerous and more affluent).

 
You are correct; that was a brain fart.
--scott

This far from the first time I have posted this correction (it is
possible that my very first post on USENET over 30 years ago was such a
correction).

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