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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!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: Thu, 29 May 2025 08:36:32 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: <29vg3kpcmr9is7jiqmh5osci7khiadk2dg@4ax.com> References: <03gqqj562r4vi0kpi2vl8flsi59jsbot56@4ax.com> <100r7an$bnka$1@dont-email.me> <100u0d1$15sv8$1@dont-email.me> <10129t8$21e2l$1@dont-email.me> <5lob3kperj3f91gsmc3dvoln99iodmlgh7@4ax.com> <101828q$3f0bs$5@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Thu, 29 May 2025 17:36:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="8c8a28d5cdaa72fbafd69883123f99d7"; logging-data="4143205"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18pBCzclpQmt5wrBuAH4uPa0395tDBj2OE=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:yBhi1lABcrRV8kfaWkswlalfyp8= Bytes: 2981 On Wed, 28 May 2025 16:21:14 -0600, lar3ryca wrote: >On 2025-05-27 10:13, Paul S Person wrote: >> On Mon, 26 May 2025 10:54:47 -0700, Bobbie Sellers >> wrote: >>=20 >>> >>> On 5/26/25 08:37, Paul S Person wrote: >> And you somehow left out: atheist, anti-religious bigotry, secular >> humanism, and any other religion that denies its own nature. > >I strongly disagree that atheism, for example, is a religion, ... =46eel free to disagree. =46reedom of religion is guaranteed to all in the USA. Not in the USA? Check your local laws. >> Note that many of these admit to being philosophies or even >> ideologies. But when those function as a "Myth-OS", they act as a >> religion. > >Nor is it a philosophy. Ah, so you don't believe that atheists are friends of wisdom. ("Philosophy" is "friend (or lover) of wisdom"). But of course it is a philosophy. Theology was originally part of philosophy, and "God doesn't exist" is a clearly theological statement.=20 >I don't believe that the world is being run by an intelligent giant=20 >purple octopus either, and you would be hard put to describe that as=20 >either a religion or a philosophy. Nobody claims that it is. That's the problem with adopting a negative proposition as the basis of life. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"