As a journalist, Lindsey Kukunda had been sent by her editors to investigate a local group of freethinkers in Kampala. Things took an interesting turn after that. This is her story.
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January 21, 2013 at 3:45 pm
makagutu
Can we have a meeting for free thinkers, atheists and agnostics in East Africa someday?
January 21, 2013 at 4:05 pm
danielwalldammit
very cool
January 22, 2013 at 7:03 am
Sword of Apollo
Great story!
May 6, 2013 at 1:38 am
Asiimwe
Despite the masquerade of independent thought and logic, members of this ‘free thinkers’ outfit appear to crave identity and companionship more than anything else.
While I do not subscribe to religion or superstition in general, I think that there are things about being human that we do not completely understand yet; We cannot, therefore, fairly subject these types of things to reason.
You are a tolerant bunch, nevertheless.