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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 08:36:32 -0700
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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:
>>=20
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>I strongly disagree that atheism, for example, is a religion, ...

=46eel free to disagree.

=46reedom 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.
>
>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.=20

>I don't believe that the world is being run by an intelligent giant=20
>purple octopus either, and you would be hard put to describe that as=20
>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.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"