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Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 09:15:16 -0700
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On Sat, 31 May 2025 14:34:35 +1200, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:

>On 31/05/25 14:31, Titus G wrote:
>
>> This reminded me of a similar exchange in 2019:
>
>And again.
>
>
>On 14/04/20 4:25 am, Paul S Person wrote:
>snip
>>
>> Used to actually /identify/ religions when we see them.
>
>Is your real name Paul S People?
>
>> All religions. Not just those (some) atheists are willing to =
recognize.
>>
>
>The user of asynchronous communication as practised here does NOT make
>the affirmative statement that synchronous communication does not exist.
>
>An asexual person does NOT make the affirmative statement that sex does
>not exist.
>
>A Corvid-19 asymptomatic person does NOT make the affirmative statement
>that a Corvid-19 symptom does not exist.
>
>[But Paul S Person states:]
>
>An atheist is an anti-religious fanatic.

If I actually said that, I was a bit over the top. I generally
distinguish the two. In fact, most /atheists/ I have encountered have
little or no interest in religion. They certainly do not respond to a
religious reference by immediately attacking the person making it. It
is the anti-religious fanatic that does that.

But without the context I cannot be sure. And nor can anybody else.

And, yes, this is a conclusion I reached a long time ago. That it is
not helping with rescuing MAGA from their alt-reality is a somewhat
newer idea.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"