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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: Sun, 25 May 2025 09:10:03 -0700
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On Sat, 24 May 2025 14:41:46 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott
Dorsey) wrote:

>Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>I believe I've heard that Christians believed
>>for a long time - along with a "young earth"
>>and creationism - that species extinction
>>didn't, wouldn't happen.  That whatever God had
>>crested would continue to exist - unless he
>>changed his mind about that.  And so species
>>didn't need to be protected from destructive
>>exploitation.  God was protecting them.
>
>I strongly suspect God is pretty pissed about what we did to His
>creatures.

Martin Luther apparently believed that God is "pretty pissed" about
pretty much everything anyone does on their own. His actual
description of God's feelings is a /lot/ worse than merely being
"pretty pissed", but that was the rhetorical style back then.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"