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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,alt.usage.english Subject: Re: 25 Classic Books That Have Been Banned Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 09:10:03 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <73g63khlf2bu71edks1jun09rf2r87952d@4ax.com> References: <03gqqj562r4vi0kpi2vl8flsi59jsbot56@4ax.com> <100r7an$bnka$1@dont-email.me> <100t3ta$plb$1@panix2.panix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 18:10:04 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8b38e5a873e79c9f6e1f89844f907459"; logging-data="1536868"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19FCmIIMWk5eGZzuPcj0kfkE7qxkM8EVn4=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:JJ5d7J6rds092u4LX4QrM9Qdm20= Bytes: 2186 On Sat, 24 May 2025 14:41:46 -0400 (EDT), kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote: >Robert Carnegie 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.'"