"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:12:00 +0100, Rod Speed
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Commander Kinsey wrote

Another account must be made so they don't get the last word in. The
silliest thing I got banned for was saying the word "damn". And not
even
in a rude way, probably something like "the damn weather is awful
today".
Turns out the admin was a religious nutter.

Yeah, I got the same thing from another religious nutter for
using the term "hell of a lot", not a moderator in that case.

You have to wonder how far we would be today if religion had not impeded
science.

In some ways it actually helped it dramatically, particularly
with quite a few vicars etc with lots of time on their hands
choosing to get involved in observational science with plants
and geology etc particularly. One of the weirder quirks.

Same with Mendel and other plant breeding in monasterys.

Yes, Darwin did delay publishing his Origin of Species
because he knew what a **** fight that would produce
with the religious fundys and some others like Bruno
quite literally got burnt at the stake for his science and
that presumably had a big effect on others considering
doing real science instead of just accepting what their
stupid collection of fairy storys had to say about things,
but its important to not forget that it happened both ways.