On Saturday, my brother and I went to Laudium in the evening. We visited there a speech on a the Bible vs. Koran. Before we went there we met with some other Christians and drove down to their school and community center. The speech was given by a lawyer working for an organization called IPCI. It was announced that he would speak about half an hour and then people could discuss it. However, he talked on for hours in circles with the extend to proove that the bible couldn’t be understood literally, Word by word. What a surprise. And therefore he claimed it is not valid.

Beside the fact, that he used some debatable arguments and some modern or should I say renaissance legends (like people in medieval times believed the earth is flat), he missed the point. At least from my perspective. The whole thing had for me a little bit the experience of a emacs vs. vi chat in a internet news group. I found that really strange.

Beside the speech, we talk a little bit to some people from the audience (all muslims) and I found them quite friendly. However I was not really able to follw the arguments, because I lack certain knowledge about Christian and Islam theology.

Afterwards we drove back to Johannesburg through the dark night of South Africa. At one point I was close to hit me. Because I forgot the camera again. So I have to describe what we saw. After driving through the night over some country road and ending up in some dead ends, because somebody neglegted to place the correct directional sign somewhere. We ended up at a road were a big sign pointed left to Pretoria and right to Johannesburg. The information was so far correct the only strange thing about it was, that it hang upside down.