Don't Bogart My Blog: Sunday Best: When your beliefs are at odds with logic

Sunday, March 31, 2019

Sunday Best: When your beliefs are at odds with logic

Do we have a God problem?

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Sunday, March 31, 2019

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As we wrap up Women's History Month, we can celebrate great strides for women. Take the looming all-female spacewalk, for example. Oh, wait, not that. But let's hear it for the new postpartum depression drug! Ah, it's $34,000, you say? Well, what about reproductive rights? It was just about 50 years ago that a group of women shouted their abortions for the first time. But I suppose we shouldn't toss pink confetti into the air quite yet since a flood of court cases are currently threatening abortion rights. — Alexandra March

We Have a God Problem

Reuters

By PETER ATTERTON

God is perfect. He is all-knowing. He is omnipotent. But what happens when the idea of the deity that most Westerners hold in their minds contradicts logic?

Rwanda's Children of Rape Have Come of Age

Faustin, whose mother, Bernadette, was raped multiple times during the genocide. Photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik/Verbatim

By JONATHAN TORGOVNIK

"Rape was the greatest weapon during the genocide, because the people that were killed died, but us that were raped, we live with the consequences, and then we pass those consequences to the next generation."

From Fortnite to Alt-Right

Julianna Brion

By MEGAN CONDIS

There are digital spaces in the gaming world teeming with neo-Nazis — and there's a reason those spots are a hotbed for white nationalist recruitment.

Google Your Therapist

Karolin Schnoor

By LORI GOTTLIEB

Therapists may not type your name into a search engine and scour the internet for details, but there's no reason why you can't look *them* up. In fact, it may humanize them.

To the Type-A Person Having a Meltdown

Jennifer Xiao

By MARY LAURA PHILPOTT

"It's hard to explain to people that if you get the punctuation wrong in a tweet, your world becomes a purposeless void. Not everyone gets it."

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