Ioannis Gatsiounis has written a wonderful article about Freethought Kampala for Time Magazine (online), called Uganda: Debating God in a God-Fearing Country.
Here is an excerpt:
There are no atheists in trenches, the old saying goes, and there aren’t many more in Uganda. When it comes to poverty, disease, corruption, issues of sexuality and tribal tensions, most Ugandans believe they need God’s help. Even during the weekday lunch hour, they can be found filing into the capital’s churches, lifting their hands to the heavens and swaying in time to Christian rock bands and dapper pastors promising salvation. A study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life found that 97% of Ugandans are believers, and the fact that professions of atheism are invariably met with incredulity has prompted most of Uganda’s freethinkers to keep their skepticism in the closet. But James Onen, a former Pentecostal Christian who once spoke in tongues, is not among them.
Indeed I’m not. A loud and proud freethinker, skeptic and atheist, I am!
You can read the rest of the article here.
Here are blog posts relevant to issues raised in the article:
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November 5, 2010 at 12:36 am
gordonokc
Do you think Time Magazine found out about Freethought Kampalalk from Pharyngula?
November 5, 2010 at 5:54 am
James Onen
I don’t think so. I was interviewed by the Time correspondent several weeks before we were talked about at Pharyngula.
Correct me if I’m wrong, Gordon, but it was you who alerted PZ about this blog, right?
November 5, 2010 at 6:04 am
gordonokc
You are correct. I emailed PZ about your organization. That was the evening before he named you on his blog. So there is no connection with the Time Magazine article.
Thanks for the reply. I was curious if there was a connection.
November 5, 2010 at 8:35 am
James Onen
Thank you, Gordon, for considering us worthy of telling others about 🙂
November 9, 2010 at 5:22 pm
pearl
you guys i feel your courage to come up with the reseach and facts about the level at which Ugandans are taking it with prayers.I for one i find it hard to see guys on the streets of kampala preaching the whole day with out any thought of where their next meal will come from.I belive in God but honestly some fox take it to another level that leaves alot to be desired if such fox don’t need self examination.Am so disturbed that most of these guys seem to be ‘fooled’ when their pastors jet in and out of countries,take their kids to good schools,drive the finest cars,and live in the best homes,their followers choose to be in this kind of state!!!SHAME!n wake up!i think its high time x-tians get the proper meaning of life.
November 9, 2010 at 5:58 pm
pearl
About the freethinkers’ nite that attracted alot of journalists from several media houses in attendence that nite, i would have one thing to say.I bet when journalists are being trained one of the the ethincal values is to be balanced in whatever story one is about to deliver to readers,viewers or listners.But it’s sad that most hide under the guise of poor facilitation to fill the public with half baked stories!i know i might be ‘crucified’ for this but the truth sometimes hurts and is bitter!This goes back to the passion and level of proffessionalim one has in the kind of work they do.This is drown from the witchcraft stories that were run and i applaud James Onen that took it up on him self as a responsible citizen to ‘right ‘ the wrongs in the so called facts in some of these stories that were run.Such people are needed in the World to lend a hand even when it does not fall in their proffession.Fellow journalists lets not just look at meeting dead lines when we are not doing the right thing!!When the right thing is done it always pays off in good measure!