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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: "To Sail beyond the Sunset" by Robert A. Heinlein
Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 08:50:26 -0700
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On 1 May 2024 17:50:19 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:

>On 1 May 2024 at 16:40:59 BST, "Paul S Person"
><psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 01 May 2024 14:13:23 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
>> wrote:
>>=20
>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> On 4/30/2024 8:54 AM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-04-29, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>=20
>>>>>> The book is also an in depth examination on how society in the USA
>>>>>> changed from 1880 to 1980.  Technology changed radically in that =
time
>>>>>> and so did societal morals about sex and drugs, not for the =
better.
>>>>>=20
>>>>> So you are in favor of criminalizing sex and liberalizing drugs?
>>>>=20
>>>> I did not comment on laws, I commented on societal morals.
>>>=20
>>> That would be societal mores.
>>>=20
>>> Which are arbitrary.  Yours are informed by your religion.
>>> Others are informed by their religion.   Some are informed
>>> by no religion.
>>=20
>> No acknowledged or no recognized religion, that is.
>>=20
>> Indeed, it could be argued that societal mores /are/ the true religion
>> of the society holding to them.
>
>It could, but it would be a terrible argument that misuses and confuses
>the term religion.

Don't see why.

Well, unless you are restricting "religion" to "organized religion",
of course.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"