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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 10:10:20 -0700
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In article <101ck6c$i6i$1@panix2.panix.com>,
 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:

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

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).

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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