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: Sat, 31 May 2025 09:15:16 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 48 Message-ID: <3gam3klmjm3m1c135be06mc4dvjlb4q1o2@4ax.com> References: <03gqqj562r4vi0kpi2vl8flsi59jsbot56@4ax.com> <1012fr2$25mfe$1@dont-email.me> <10163c6$32seg$1@dont-email.me> <101dplj$q5st$1@dont-email.me> <101dprd$q5st$2@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 18:15:19 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="caa20c9f3e4698ab7f841781e4b3243d"; logging-data="1329324"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19wVNdFwT1SokmiqglXAmkw8ZLlEu8NELQ=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:eeVR56GRVaAZjrOXb1DI0ROPBx8= On Sat, 31 May 2025 14:34:35 +1200, Titus G wrote: >On 31/05/25 14:31, Titus G wrote: > >> This reminded me of a similar exchange in 2019: > >And again. > > >On 14/04/20 4:25 am, Paul S Person wrote: >snip >> >> Used to actually /identify/ religions when we see them. > >Is your real name Paul S People? > >> All religions. Not just those (some) atheists are willing to = recognize. >> > >The user of asynchronous communication as practised here does NOT make >the affirmative statement that synchronous communication does not exist. > >An asexual person does NOT make the affirmative statement that sex does >not exist. > >A Corvid-19 asymptomatic person does NOT make the affirmative statement >that a Corvid-19 symptom does not exist. > >[But Paul S Person states:] > >An atheist is an anti-religious fanatic. If I actually said that, I was a bit over the top. I generally distinguish the two. In fact, most /atheists/ I have encountered have little or no interest in religion. They certainly do not respond to a religious reference by immediately attacking the person making it. It is the anti-religious fanatic that does that. But without the context I cannot be sure. And nor can anybody else. And, yes, this is a conclusion I reached a long time ago. That it is not helping with rescuing MAGA from their alt-reality is a somewhat newer idea. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"