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South Africa is a very Christian country. You see it everywhere. Like every “good South African”, I also grew up Christian. Whatever that means.
The typical impression of Christianity that most outsiders seem to have, is that Christianity is obsessed with the afterlife and the supernatural, and rejects science. I suspect this is especially the case [...]

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Today is the thirteenth anniversary of my father’s death. He died in a light aeroplane accident in the French Alps. A few years ago there was a question milling through some people’s minds: is he now in heaven?

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