Vol. 2 No. 1 – January 15, 2007
Publisher's Note
The traditional holiday season in South Africa over December and January represents reading time for me, personally.
The novels I never seem to find time to read; everything that I have saved for soonest reading from the Web, from correspondents… the holidays are glorious!
I’ve read Dennett. I’ve read Dawkins. I’ve read Harris.
I’ve re-read two volumes: Emma Gilbey’s The Lady – The Life and Times of Winnie Mandela (Vintage: 1994), and Harvey Tyson’s quite brilliant Editors Under Fire (Random House: 1993)… wondering, musing about the dearth of guts – pure, unadulterated bloody guts – the paucity of straight talking!
And then, as I despaired, South African poet and journalist Antjie Krog spoke at the Suidoosterfees Arts Festival in Cape Town on Saturday! Fearlessly, she spoke! And among other things, mentioned that the tolerant must eventually accept their complicity in the dynamic of the intolerant!
Journalist Johannes de Villiers also addressed the issue of intolerance this week-end, in By: Kan jy onverdraagsaamheid verdra? (Can you tolerate intolerance?) “We’re not all like that”, Christian theologians apparantly wailed at a recent conference on fundamentalism, reports De Villiers. Intolerance. It is a subject that haunts me… that I have addressed in Tolerance… intolerance: How much? How long? (TART Remarks, August 21, 2006.)
My mind’s desire for 2007 is that we shall respect the young. That we shall have the courage to cultivate, among children and the youth, a spirit of free-thinking that may revolusionize our world!
Is such a desire even permitted?
It must be!
I recall the memory of Katharine Tait, Bertrand Russell’s daughter by his second wife, Dora Winifred Black, “I cannot recall ever being told to sit down and be quiet. Believing in freedom for children, (my parents) lived by their belief, even when it was not convenient.”
Contents
Publisher’s note
Editor’s note
Suffer little children… sanctioned child abuse!
Faith, hope & sanity: a few jokes about religion before it kills us
Dublin imam takes on the fanatics
Heaven's above - or perhaps below
Moral minds: how nature designed our universal sense of right and wrong
The sound of thorns crackling in a fire
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