Some questions from a believer
On Google+, a Christian posed some questions regarding my column on the Dawkins survey of religious attitudes. The questions seemed sincere, so I thought I’d answer them.
The South African Charter on Religious Rights and Freedoms
The proposed Charter on Religious Rights and Freedoms goes further than simply protecting religious views from persecution. Instead, it privileges them, thus compromising the freedom of the non-religious.
TopTV plans to “release a flood of filth into our communities”
Errol Naidoo says that if “TopTV succeeds in launching porn channels in SA, It will open the floodgates for other broadcasters to open the sewers and release a flood of filth into our communities”, and is leading a proposed church boycott of the pay TV channel if they do go ahead.
John Gray’s accommodationist waffle
While it’s undeniably true that what we do matters more than what we believe – given that what we do is all that anyone else ever sees – this truism can’t be deployed to evade the fact that what we believe can sometimes affect what we do.
Martin Amis on religion
To be clear: an ideology is a belief system with an inadequate basis in reality; a religion is a belief system with no basis in reality whatever. Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
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