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{ Monthly Archives } September 2006

Student elections

Our SRC (Student’s Representative Council) elections are underway. The candidate manifestos usually make for interesting reading, if only because of their idealism in terms of what they hope to accomplish during their terms of office. Sometimes, however, you find something truly alarming, such as this manifesto from Philani Msomi. While it’s reproduced verbatim, I’m afraid [...]

2006 09 27 Quinn Academia
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Apologists: lessons in how not to read

At some point, when time allows, I’ll share with you the extent of the confusion Christian apologists labour under. To generalise, this is a group that imagines themselves as Christian philosophers, and who take on the challenge of defending their belief system through what they imagine to be rational argumentation. Some even actively engage, and [...]

2006 09 08 Quinn Culture
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