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Peter Higgs on the “fundamentalism” of Richard Dawkins

December 27, 2012 · by Jacques Rousseau · in Religion

The claim that Dawkins is strident, shrill and so forth has become axiomatic through simple repetition, with few people bothering to make the distinction between “being discomfited by robust challenge” on the one hand and “those strident new atheists” on the other.

The dangers of tolerance

April 8, 2010 · by Jacques Rousseau · in Daily Maverick, Morality, Religion

We should all – secular and religious alike – be encouraging the treatment of these Catholic child-abuse allegations as regular criminal cases, where suspects are arrested, questioned and sentenced if found guilty.

Suffer the little children

April 7, 2010 · by Jacques Rousseau · in Morality, Religion

It should surely not be the case that wearing a funny hat grants you immunity from legal processes, and the Catholic priests who abuse children should be questioned.

The Frontline Fellowship wants your kids

November 16, 2009 · by Jacques Rousseau · in Academia and teaching, General, Religion

The most recent newsletter from Dr. Paintball Hammond recycles one of his articles from 2004, which claims that universities are “hijacking our youth“. At the end of another long year of teaching, involving having to…

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