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As God ‘n projeksie is

By Johan Swarts | Published: July 5, 2009

As God bloot 'n projeksie van die mens se hoogste ideale is en boonop “the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully” is… …then every atheist should hate [...]

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Wanneer kreasioniste rugby met rakette speel

By Johan Swarts | Published: November 27, 2008

Van die terme wat uit kreasionisme spruit, is vir my besonder vreemd. Ek lees byvoorbeeld onlangs hierdie brokkie teks op Kobus Grobler se tuisblad: …Richard Dawkins, wêreldbekende bioloog, ateïs en evolusionis… Vreemd, nè? Evolusionis. Herkou daaraan vir 'n oomblik; speel daarmee soos jy sou met kruim in jou mond. Iets skort. Om agter te kom [...]

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Dit gaan nie oor slag nie

By Johan Swarts | Published: May 26, 2008

Bertus! het my voorgespring. Lees hier wat hy te sê het. Soms kry ek die gevoel mense verstaan my verkeerd (om enige vorm van emo’geit te verhoed, is laasgenoemde die laaste sin van sy soort vir hierdie inskrywing). As ek skryf LitNet se blogsisteem suig balle, is dit nie omdat ek LitNet haat nie, maar [...]

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Religious men?

By Johan Swarts | Published: May 24, 2008

Religion is the world’s most divisive label of group identity and hostility. – Richard Dawkins

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Vervreem die vervreemdes deesdae?

By Johan Swarts | Published: May 6, 2008

The central doctrine of Christianity, then, is not that God is a bastard. It is, in the words of the late Dominican theologian Herbert McCabe, that if you don't love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you. Terry Eagleton oor Richard Dawkins wat die pot missit Is dit nie ontsaglik waar nie? Die [...]

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