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I am now the proud owner of two Carl Sagan books, The Demon Haunted World (Amazon, Kalahari) and Billions and Billions (Amazon, Kalahari), as well as Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, a set of seven DVDs (Amazon). As my time is limited, I will probably not be reading or watching any of it, until October. Still, it [...]

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A snippet from an article titled The vanishing jihad exposés (which was shared by Zach, thanks!): We’ve gotten used to one-way multiculturalism: The world accepts that you can’t open an Episcopal or Congregational church in Jeddah or Riyadh, but every week the Saudis can open radical mosques and madrassahs and pro-Saudi think-tanks in London and [...]

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I love Stephen Colbert. I’m thinking I should make a little link collection of my favourites. (Hehe, basically every clip I watched. OK, not quite.) Possibly the first clip I saw with him in it, was “Islam vs Christianity”, a snippet of The Daily Show. At the time, I wasn’t aware of Stephen Colbert, and [...]

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Hyperbolically described by some as the “Bible Belt of South Africa”, the university town of Stellenbosch has more than 30 churches. At least two of these (one of which is arguably the most “popular” church) are pentecostal, often proudly embracing the label “fundamentalist”, with significant anti-science teachings. In a country where Christianity is assumed, where [...]

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Larry (who works with drug addicts) writes in a comment on one of his posts: No, I haven’t thought it out. In fact, most of my beliefs are poorly constructed out of pure whimsy. This one is no exception. The only anomaly I can think of to my “whimsy” rule is this: I believe that [...]

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