{"id":169,"date":"2013-03-08T11:27:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T09:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/?p=169"},"modified":"2013-03-09T08:18:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T06:18:36","slug":"why-a-secular-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/why-a-secular-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a secular society?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A secular student organisation (re)launched at my university (Cape Town) on Monday this week. Calling themselves the UCT Student FSI, they have partnered with the non-profit that I started here in South Africa, the <a title=\"Free Society Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/fsi.org.za\" target=\"_blank\">Free Society Institute<\/a>. I was invited to give the launch address, an invitation that I was very happy to accept. The quality &#8211; especially of the first video &#8211; is rather poor, but for those of you who&#8217;d like to watch\/listen, two videos can be found below (the talk, and the question-and-answer session that followed it). I&#8217;ve been told that the slides aren&#8217;t always visible, so if you want to see those, <a title=\"Slides of talk\" href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/vr7lplrzt-xb\/why-a-secular-society\/?auth_key=ad649c672e94558108964e7acdfe15872c006ef0&amp;kw=view-vr7lplrzt-xb&amp;rc=ref-1851867\" target=\"_blank\">they are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why a secular society?\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OLW6JJIE-MY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why a secular society? Question &amp; Answer session.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vbaVR6ZgOzQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently invited to give a talk at the launch of the UCT Student FSI. Here is the video of that talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[126,125],"class_list":["post-169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-secularism","tag-free-society-institute","tag-uct-student-fsi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/freesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}