Tag Archives: UCT

Sax Appeal 2010: on causing offense

By Jacques | Posted: February 4, 2010
Following the controversy caused by last year's edition of Sax Appeal (see here and here, if you don't know about this), the editor asked if I'd be willing to contribute a column. I was, and here it is, for those of you not in Cape Town (or those who simply ignored the pleas of those desperate students at the traffic lights).
Posted in Morality, Religion, Teaching | Also tagged blasphemy, Sax Appeal | 7 Comments

Frontline Fellowship: Lying for Jesus

By Jacques | Posted: May 11, 2009
These 100 students will no doubt undergo rigorous training in hyperbole, hysteria and deception.
Posted in Religion | Also tagged blasphemy, Peter Hammond, Religion, Sax Appeal | 12 Comments

Varsity – reporting on the blasphemy debate

By Jacques | Posted: May 5, 2009
Peter Hammond is almost certainly not misquoted in saying that the students who sold Sax Appeal are "drunken layabouts and transvestite-dressed representatives of UCT".
Posted in Religion | Also tagged atheism, blasphemy, Peter Hammond, Religion, Sax Appeal, Tauriq Moosa | Leave a comment

The blasphemy debate debacle

By Jacques | Posted: April 29, 2009
The debate on free-speech, blasphemy and the Sax Appeal controversy, scheduled for April 29th between Tauriq Moosa, Jacques Rousseau and Peter Hammond has been cancelled.
Posted in Religion | Also tagged atheism, blasphemy, Peter Hammond, Religion, Sax Appeal, Tauriq Moosa | 14 Comments

Blasphemy debate (update)

By Jacques | Posted: April 22, 2009
"this is not vengeance", so I'll focus on the problems associated with burying one's head in the sand more generally, rather than picking on poor Pastor Michael.
Posted in Religion | Also tagged atheism, blasphemy, censorship, rationality, Religion, Sax Appeal | 1 Comment
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