1745: Wynand Meijer on Secularism and South African Society
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/08/19
“The banners came out well. They’re quite tall, as well. I picked up the banners. That’s the short and sweet of it.”
“We have seen people who bypass by selecting the right answer on the Dawkins Scale. But then, you sit with ‘Are you a minister?…’ We have found how to better navigate. It is to stop people from entering details.”
“I would say that we, generally, get 3 to 4 applications a week without these stops in place.”
“Something else came up. This is, essentially, where the Dawkins Scale came from. We would get individuals who claim, ‘I am spiritual, but I am not religious,’ which poses some very difficult and weird things. It doesn’t really fit in.”
“There was a lot of debate on it, among the leadership. As well, we posed this to our community in establishing it. Where is that line to allow somebody?”
“Where is it when somebody is spiritual, in the sense of ‘I have an acknowledgement and an appreciation for that around me, and being mindful,’ versus, ‘I am spiritual because I like crystals’?”
“We don’t have one, really. There are things we do have; it is more like karma based.”
“Yes, it is a type of whip. If you do something, and if it is not really up to standard, then die blinde sambok will come and get you. It is more karma. If you do something bad, then it will come and get you.”
“Yes, die blinde sambok. Others scare their children with the sakabula, like the Boogeyman. You say it once or twice. But there is not a whole mythology behind the thing.”
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