Moderately Religious: believing in a secular world
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Khalid Benhaddou is too cautious in 'The monsters of our time'

Book cover: a snowy road stretching into the distance with a pale sky; large red stacked title on the left—'DE MONSTERS VAN ONZE TIJD' by Khalid Benhadou; publisher Ertsberg.

Imam Khalid Benhaddou flawlessly profiles our divided society in 'The Monsters of Our Time', but ultimately chooses a secular way out. A missed opportunity. While he safely stores religion as a private matter, I have a radically different proposal: as a society we need not less, but more space for religions as a shared foundation.

The Enlightenment as protection of religion

Anyone who reads the piece “Flanders will be secular or it will not be” by Jurgen Slembrouck of the University of Antwerp will get a textbook example of the dogmatic urge to proselytize that atheists display. The title doesn't lie: they will only be satisfied when everyone rejects religion and confesses that the Enlightenment is the only true doctrine. No, atheists don't need lessons...

Open letter to Jean-Marie Dedecker: faith is possible without backwardness

Dear Jean-Marie, Forgive me for addressing you amicably, but after reading your book “Frank and Free” I have the feeling that I have gotten to know you better, as someone with whom I would like to spend hours in a brown pub, philosophizing together and selling bar talk, sometimes thoroughly discussing nuances in our different opinions, other times bursting with laughter...

Moderately Religious: believing in a secular world