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This isn’t an April fool’s joke, The Philosopher (a good friend of mine’s nickname for Prof Daniel Dennett) is visiting Stellenbosch on Wednesday! I’m not duplicating the info here, see the Renowned philosopher to speak at Stellenbosch University news item on Stellenbosch University’s website.
He’s touring… a brief search on Facebook shows he’s also visiting Cape [...]

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How does a fundie know he’s right? This question was recently touched on in a long discussion with a “proud fundamentalist”. The question then was about how one knows whose interpretation or emphasis is correct, given we had four people present with interpretations that differ to varying degrees.
I now believe the tradition to be very [...]

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I’d like to abuse my blog to congratulate two of my friends, two scientists, Doctor Kenneth (Botany) and Doctor -M- (Zoology), on officially obtaining their PhD’s earlier today!

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Much has been made of a number of Scandinavian countries’ cultural and social state, as an example of the “least religious nations in the world”. Can a culture be stable, secure, safe… without a religion? Karl Marx suggested you need good socio-economics in a nation for it to be non-religious. Likewise, Christians suggest “people tend [...]

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Found via a blog post on his blog, in this video of Peter Rollins, he shares an ancient Jewish parable about what it means to wrestle with scripture, what the tradition means to those that belong to the family.

the essence,
not that we find the right answer, but that we
wrestle with the tradition
fight with it
love it
are [...]

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