Re: National Day of Reason

On 5/3/2024 4:09 AM, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote:
> On Fri, 3 May 2024 00:02:18 -0500
> Dawn Flood <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/2/2024 7:53 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>> Dawn Flood <[email protected]> wrote in news:v0vqqi$3q5vp$1@dont-
>>> email.me:
>>>
>>>> On 5/1/2024 10:08 PM, David Dalton wrote:
>>>>>    From a Google margin box (from Wikipedia?):
>>>>>
>>>>> The National Day of Reason is a secular celebration for humanists,
>>>>> atheists, secularists, and freethinkers. The day is celebrated
>>>>> annually on the first Thursday in May, in response to the statutory
>>>>> observance of a National Day of Prayer in the United States,
>>>>> which many atheist and secular groups deem unconstitutional.
>>>>>
>>>>> Date:Thursday, May 2, 2024
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I signed the FFRF petition.  Give it another century, especially, after
>>>> people are arguing over whether the State of Florida should be regarded
>>>> as being part of the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.
>>>
>>>
>>>        The bigger question is whether it is
>>> part of 12th or 14th century.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Florida school district pulls dictionaries
>>> and encyclopedias as part of "inappropriate"
>>> content review
>>> January 12, 2024
>>>
>>> https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-school-district-pulls-dictionaries-
>>> and-encyclopedias-as-part-of-sexual-or-inappropriate-content-review/
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Let's see them pull "the Internet".
>>
> It's easy, ask the government in China.
> 

The Great Firewall leaks worse than a sieve.  Here's one answer:

https://www.torproject.org/

After the Catholic Church's persecution of Galileo Galilei, the 
Renaissance moved north, eventually leaving Italy.  States like Florida 
can ban whatever they want to ban, but enterprising young people can 
always go online and read whatever they want.  For instance, the New 
York Public Library is offering a free digital library to any student in 
the United States:

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned

Dawn