Surfing highlights: Friday, 23 Nov 2007

Step away from the pot pie by Kimbery Eddy on Boundless. I'd re-read this for her tips on cooking for one (or two) to avoid always defaulting to eating out.

To hell, with Dante (I first read it as 'To hell with Dante!' and thought 'What's so wrong with Dante that they have to swear at him?') by James Tonkowich on Boundless. Anyway. This article gives a low-down on Dante's background and discusses his vision of hell in The Divine Comedy. Which reminds me that I bought Inferno for S$20 in August but haven't touched since. Meh.

Go gently into the night, a Christianity Today editorial about the ethical immorality behind embryonic stem cell research. My favourite exerpts:

"…a new moral sensibility has developed that serves precisely medicine's crusade against mortality: Anything is permitted if it saves life, cures disease, prevents death. …The problem is not in wanting to stay healthy …but in 'values [that] are so youth-oriented that we are really disparaging the elderly' … [and] the very thought of death."

Apparently even Christians are no better at accepting and cherishing mortal death, with "churches rarely sing[ing] about heaven, once a staple of Sunday morning worship."

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