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Hehe, surprising how much fun it is to shout “Repent! Repent!”, like a manic street preacher. At least Johan Swarts claims there’s one difference between bloggers like me and a manic street preacher: some people supposedly listen to me? (Apologies to Johan — and Leon — for having grown up English, educationally speaking. My home [...]

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Why must we always call a horse a horse? What is wrong with calling it a perd when talking to an Afrikaans person, a paard when talking to a Dutch person, a cheval when talking to a French person, and a knight when playing chess?
I don’t like the idea of forcing everyone to speak English. [...]

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The word “Gospel” has become a swear word in certain circles. What a pity. Let’s rather talk about “Good News” then.
What this world needs, is good old-fashioned, nay, ancient, evangelism and missionary work. Yes, you read that right. Evangelism and missionary work in the style of the pre-colonial, pre-modernistic era. Missionaries that understand the power [...]

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The Christians are not the only ones with a language problem. I’m sure atheists would agree that the term “atheist” is often grossly misunderstood. The history of the word is as an insult, a very negative word. Combine with that the fact that atheism lacks any memes encouraging people not to care what people think [...]

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CS Lewis abandoned childhood faith to become an atheist, at 13 or 15 (Wikipedia contradicts itself, will be fixed later). He remained an atheist until age 31, at which point he converted to Christianity and became known as “The Apostle to the Skeptics”. (I’m not saying “converted back”, as childhood faith and adult faith does [...]

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There is one serious problem, or danger rather, with communication media like the Internet. It is absolutely brilliant how it can bring such vastly diverse groups of people together, but there is something fundamentally dangerous about that two-edged sword.

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