Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Secularism and the Meaningless Life

Dennis Prager takes on the question of what gives life meaning and what the consequences of an irreligious (secular) life are.

Most irreligious individuals, quite understandably, do not like to acknowledge the inevitable and logical consequence of their irreligiosity — that life is ultimately purposeless

Movie Review Podcast

This is a cool blog/podcast: Family Reviews, where a family watches movies and then reviews them together. They've been doing reviews this way since November of last year, and since then they've reviewed Racing Striped, Incredibles, Ocean's Twelve, Napolean Dynamite, and a few others.

I found it when Adam Curry mentioned it on his show "The Daily Source Code" -- he always plugs new and cool podcasts to listen to.

Download podcast software to subscribe to the podcast feeds, and then when a new program is available it will download it for you. I'm listening to a couple of podcasts in the morning before I listen to Rush.

Most boys at Christian schools say no to sex

Here's an excerpt from a report from the Evening Standard of London:
A Christian education makes teenage boys less permissive, according to research out today.

Boys at private Anglican and Catholic schools are more likely to oppose sex before marriage and be less tolerant of pornography.

They are also less likely to feel depressed or consider suicide, according to a survey of 13,000 teenagers by Professor Leslie J Francis from the University of Wales, Bangor.
So education was the answer all along -- a Christian education!