Tag Archives: religion

NYTimes.com – Brigitte Gabriel Draws Crowds in U.S. With Anti-Islam Message

Fear much like sex sells, for bet­ter or worse.

March 8, 2011 – 1:27 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Helium – Reflections: Being an atheist

On being an athe­ist US solider.

November 15, 2010 – 12:13 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

TED.com – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: Inside a school for suicide bombers

Or edu­cat­ing chil­dren to be weapons.

November 8, 2010 – 11:14 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Friendly Atheist – An Iowa College’s Response to Blasphemy Day

Free­dom of speech is impor­tant for peo­ple to feel free to cri­tique any idea even one as per­sonal as religion.

July 24, 2010 – 2:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Philosophy, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

A Psychologist Steeped in Treatment of Sexually Active Priests – NYTimes.com

A sec­u­lar ther­a­pist pro­vides his insight into the Catholic sex offender scandal.

April 11, 2010 – 5:32 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Last supper ‘has been super-sized’, say obesity experts – BBC News

Food por­tions in depic­tions of “The Last Sup­per” have increased right along with real serv­ing sizes.

March 23, 2010 – 11:02 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Art, Science | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

After Americans Visit, Uganda Weighs Death for Gays — NYTimes.com

Post three Chris­t­ian Amer­i­cans com­ing and speak­ing at a con­fer­ence on homo­sex­u­al­ity, Uganda politi­cians start­ing weigh­ing a bill to kill homosexuals.

January 3, 2010 – 9:46 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, General News, Politics | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off