An interesting quote was used to demonstrate Marx's theory that 'religion is the opium of the people" in politics today. It appeared something like what follows: "To those who have more shall be given and to those who don't have even what they have shall be taken away."
I found this rather provocative and proceeded to call out: "What kind of asshole said that?" Only to realised... "Jesus"

Looking at the original context of the verse it seems to be controversial mostly in the essence that it is missing this context. I think it's incrediably scary that the Bible can be so easily misused...especially considering that religious people view it as a soveriegn form of law, perhaps even above international/national laws. Thus the potential for abuse seems endless.

In Nigeria a Christian evangelical movement has become obsessed with the idea of child whitches and proceeds to exorcise the whitches by beating, starving and burning the falsly accused children. Most of these actions are motivated by greedy self-serving evangelicals, who in all fairness are financially and not religiously motivated, but this demonstrates how easily the Bible can be manipulated to serve malicious purposes.

Please feel free to disagree and debate or just share your own views with me

Well, I haven't updated my journal in what seems to be a decade so I thought I'd put up what I'm doing this year.
Firstly I've just started first year at the University of Cape Town. I'm doing a [link] - taking politics, philosophy, sociology and hebrew.
Secondly I joined approxiamately a million debating unions so I'll be engaging in alot of debates... and I'll have an excuse for being a fiesty bitch.
And most importantly! I've joined a student magazine and so I'll be producing alot of satirical cartoons! (I hope)

Hope you're having a great year thus far!

David Ho, “I've been called many things in my life, but I would fancy myself an artist first and foremost. After 10 years of working as a freelancer, I think creating art has become more of a necessity than anything. Productivity, a sense of immortality, an outlet for expression are but a few reasons”

Art, a necessity? I concur! I find myself going slightly insane if a whole day passes without an expression of creativity.

You can see David Ho’s work here:
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very interesting!

my darling Marche has finally got dA!!!

Despite appearances (u would assume that I am studing by the look of my mood thingies...) I have yet to get into the mode of exams. I wrote Mathematics today, but I read a book yesterday anyway. And it wasn't even a good book Procrastination is a cruel and ruthless master (in the words of some random person - Kaliski)

In other thoughts...I am getting some awesome poetry from students for our United Africa Society project to raise awareness about xenophobia in South Africa. YAY