Path: 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, 01 Jun 2025 08:46:10 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <10129t8$21e2l$1@dont-email.me> <5lob3kperj3f91gsmc3dvoln99iodmlgh7@4ax.com> <101828q$3f0bs$5@dont-email.me> <29vg3kpcmr9is7jiqmh5osci7khiadk2dg@4ax.com> <101aoui$3pun$1@dont-email.me> <101drvf$q5st$3@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:46:13 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="43e17cb50fd94893de21ae0a0db88f01"; logging-data="2361722"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX181Qt4OYlEjWspUM+8SCYA+gcXcsetYrGE=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xy0s+7bCvpNFcPpDRnYwZG0Az+0= On Sat, 31 May 2025 16:37:01 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) wrote: >Paul S Person writes: >>On Sat, 31 May 2025 15:10:52 +1200, Titus G wrote: >> >>>On 31/05/25 04:11, Paul S Person wrote: >>>> On Fri, 30 May 2025 09:00:32 +1000, Peter Moylan >>>> wrote: >>>snip >>>>> >>>>> Most atheists are more focused on reality than fantasies. >>>>=3D20 >>>> A reality which, in their belief, includes no gods. Or, more = commonly, >>>> excludes /one/ God, because as good members of a traditionally >>>> Christian culture, they only know of one God to not believe in. >>>>=3D20 >>> >>>What is this "one God" nonsense? Are you of Jewish Faith? >>>Didn't we nail a third of the three Christian Gods to a tree? >>>Or am I confusing that with some Speculative written fantasy Fiction >>>that I have read? Back on topic. (Might have been the authorised KVJ >>>version or perhaps a bootleg by Kilgore Trout.) >> >>=3D46unny as that is, just in case, let me remind you that it is "One = God >>in Three Persons". > >Even in christianity, the question has been are the three one, >or is the one three? [Pointlessly silly] wars were fought over that >simple question. As I noted in another post, heresies abound here. Either neither or both are correct depending on how "person" is understood. >Of course, that's assuming one accepts the dogma. The /best/ way here (IMHO, of course) is to accept the dogma, logic problem and all. The Apostle Paul did, after all, say that the Gospel was "nonsense to the Greeks" -- so expecting the core dogmas to "make sense" is pointless. This is why Christianity is called a /faith/, which that same Paul defines as "hope in things unseen".=20 --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"