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Peter Rollins, one of my favourite authors-that-I-haven’t-read-yet, but-his-books-are-waiting-on-my-shelf, and-I’ve-read-his-blog (create an acronym out of that one!) has an interesting post: Fundamentalism isn’t too violent, it isn’t violent enough. His primary thought is “fundamentalism is an impotent movement”, and compares it to war. For the truly radically violent, those that are “violent enough”, those that accurately [...]

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…on this blog, that is. We all agree that the problem is fundamentalism (the strong form, I sometimes use a softened version of the term). Where we don’t all agree, is what the “cause” is — consequently, what to do about the problem. The so-called “new atheism movement” often expresses the sentiment that moderates are [...]

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Thanks to Cobus for providing a link to this video clip in a comment on the previous post — John Dominic Crossan on The Dangers of Fundamentalism: Please watch this video clip, especially if you are religious. It contains the food for thought that we need to think carefully about the dangers of certain ideological [...]

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A blog newly added to my neglected reading list is teo @ UP, an Afrikaans blog by a couple of theology students at, or from, the University of Pretoria. (One of the bloggers is Cobus van Wyngaard, who also blogs in English at my contemplations.) A recent post by Cobus, generasiegapings, emerging, en ander dinge [...]

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This is the post that I was busy writing when I decided I need to first write On “Richard Dawkins is a Fundamentalist” and “Shofar is a Cult”. That post was mostly about label agnosticism and how I care about what people mean by the labels they use, rather than whether it is the “correct” [...]

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We need a language with which to talk. For the purpose of this post, I choose The Matrix, because most of us have seen it, and it hopefully left a valuable impression on us. In effect, for the purpose of this discussion, I’m choosing The Matrix as our “Bible”, our corpus, defining the language for [...]

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A large number of South Africans spend a year or two in London after their studies. A large subset of these South Africans speak Christianese. In a strange land, away from home and friends, often the first thing they do is to find a church catering for South Africans, in particular usually one catering for [...]

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For my international readers, I thought I’d sketch some background information on the South African religious context. I’m talking mostly from the perspective of an outsider, so I will appreciate any further contributions in the comments. There seems to be a debate amongst evolutionary biologists between “group selection” and “standard selection”. A quick glance at [...]

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There is one serious problem, or danger rather, with communication media like the Internet. It is absolutely brilliant how it can bring such vastly diverse groups of people together, but there is something fundamentally dangerous about that two-edged sword.

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