Comments on: The Culture of Death: Looking Better Every Day

By: truth machine

truth machine — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:24:28 +0000

“Because if there is anything that Judeo-Christian values stand for, it is choosing life and rejecting death.”

I guess he forgot all about that when he was rooting for Stanley William’s death. As Mike Farrell said to him on Larry King (http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/12/lkl.01.html), “you disgust me”.

By: eadmundster

eadmundster — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 20:03:47 +0000

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By: Larry Firrantello

Larry Firrantello — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 05:33:06 +0000

Actually, blood is not a symbol of death to ancient peoples, it is was a symbol of life, in fact to some it was the life force itself.

This whole thing is interesting considering Christians are saved “by His blood”.

By: Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 03:45:49 +0000

Actually, Egyptian culture had quite a few dos and taboos in common with that of the ancient Hebrews: circumcision (ouch, yes!), the ritual pollution of menstruating women (yeah, baby!), strict dietary laws, and a belief in their chosen uniqueness (and the concomitant uncleanness of furriners).

And I love how them life-lovin’ Hebrews committed genocide when they took over Canaan. Dennis Prager, you silly twat.

By: cowalker

cowalker — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:50:20 +0000

Leviticus Chapter 19 Verse 19
“Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind: thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woollen come upon thee.”

So which one is the death fabric–linen or woollen?

Oh, the blazer on my back, a slightly too tight metaphor for the eternal struggle between the Life Force and the Death Wish, the wooly Hebrew warp perhaps stretched with tension like cosmic strings, but completely subverted by the weft of Egyptian linen, snaking its way over and under the healthy, life-giving wool, trapping me in a navy mini-culture of ambivalence, dragging me inevitably into a state of inert uniformity with the rest of the universe.

Or the other way around.

By: matthew

matthew — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:48:44 +0000

i think, unconsciously, the christians are telling us something with this particular fight.
it could be one of a few things, namely:
“heaven is no where near as good as we’d led you to believe in order to recruit you for our faith.”
something like…
“rockefeller and carnegie have bought up the great portion of developmental real estate in heaven. good soul though you may be, you’ll be reduced to living in the streets or the parks of heaven for the foreseeable future.”
[we were made in god's image, after all.]

By: merlallen

merlallen — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:27:22 +0000

So what is the death count for the pro-life Chicken George Bush, anyway?
Counting the ones he executed in Texas, the dead on 9/11 due to his incompetence, the ones in Iraq due to his lies and last but far from least the 3 month old whose feeding tube was removed under a Texas law that he signed in 1999? I figure a low figure of 5,000. Good thing he isn’t pro-death.

By: Ryan Daly

Ryan Daly — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:50:27 +0000

Denis Prager is not a Christian. He is a devout, practicing Jew. As someone who listens to Prager’s radio show occassionaly, I can attest that this article sums up his intellectual schtick — take a preposterous theory, (ie. Christians aren’t obsessed with death), sprinkle in bits of Talmudic interpretation, mention an intellectual authority (Sigmund Freud — give me a break!), mention only the facts that support the nutty theory, and voila! — it sounds almost reasonable. Then let five or six callers on the air to agree or provide anecdotal evidence (Spoken in broad midwestern accent: “Dennis, you are so right on this one. My niece is a member of PETA and she has a tattoo of a skull. And don’t forget the Muslims. All they ever do is cut people’s heads off and commit suicide bombings.”

By: Notes in Samsara

Notes in Samsara — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:55:13 +0000

“You have misspoken”

until we personally come to terms with [death], all the railing against immoral secularists yadayadayada and their “culture of death” will only reek of narcissism.

By: Amanda Sowards

Amanda Sowards — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:09:59 +0000

I think what frightens me most is that Christian whacko extremists (sorry… is that inflammatory?) are now invoking Judaism as a basis for their nuttiness, as well as Christianity. As someone contemplating an escape from Christianity to Messianic Judaism, I have to ask… Is there NO safe haven?

I want my mommy… oh, wait… my mommy’s dead…. (GACK!! Mom, you turncoat!)

~A~

By: Blogsy McBlog

Blogsy McBlog — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:40:05 +0000

Wow, I never realized how Egyptian I was for supporting PETA. I always thought PETA was in favor of life, albiet life for animals. Now I completely understand; PETA wants humans (especiall white, male Christian bloviators) to perish. PETA realizes that without the cruel torture of animals, people like the esteemed Mr. Pranger will no longer have the will to live. What fiends! Now that I’m on the their Egyptian ploy, I no longer support PETA, and will demonstrate this by torturing a bird soon.

By: Sour Kraut

Sour Kraut — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:03:58 +0000

Every single one of the ancient Egyptians is dead. I blame their inferior morality.

By: terry

terry — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:59:25 +0000

Um, doesn’t the Bible frown on those who worry more about staying in this place instead of moving on to the next place?

“For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.” – Timothy II 4:10

“Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?” – Matthew 6:25

“He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.” – John 12:25

“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” – Colossians 3:2-3

“For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.” – Romans 8:3-5

By: Thlayli

Thlayli — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:39:01 +0000

Ya gotta love how people conclude that ancient Egypt was “steeped in death” when the only things they know about the place come from its cemeteries.

By: Chad

Chad — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:24:25 +0000

Um, Dennis, there is no archeological or historical evidence that the Jews were ever enslaved wholesale by Egypt.

But I’m perfectly willing to admit that, meticulous archivists as the Egyptians were, they just forgot about that whole “enslaving an entire ethno-religious group only every first-born son in the kingdom to die from a plague and a bunch of other crazy shit happening like the Red Sea parting then drowning our entire army” thing, if you’re willing to admit you’re an Asshole among Assholes.

By: Sickduck

Sickduck — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 00:22:03 +0000

Angry Old Broad, any place outside of the USA is sane. Even Iraq.

By: An Angry Old Broad

An Angry Old Broad — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:07:17 +0000

God this is scary shit.Menstruation is associated with death?Umm,didn’t anyone tell these people it’s part of the biology involved in creating new LIFE???For such manly men,it sure is telling to see how scared they are of women.

I wonder,are there any SANE places left on this planet?

By: Frederick

Frederick — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:53:29 +0000

Because if there is anything that Judeo-Christian values stand for, it is choosing life and rejecting death. Say what? The Christians think you get "pie in the sky when you die" -- for them, being dead in heaven is way better than being alive on Earth. Justice Scalia (an oxymoron, I know) has said, "for the believing Christian, death is no big deal." Thus, he doesn't lose any sleep over letting government kill people -- even though I daresay he figures that many of those people are hell-bound. We atheists are the ones who value life, since we realize that's all you get.

By: d

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:59:52 +0000

…and didn’t i read somewhere on the internets that a rabbi said that braindead=dead for jews? is he part of the non-Judeo-Christian “Culture of Death”?

By: d

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:54:33 +0000

so these would be the non-afterlife-believing Egyptians he’s talking about? As opposed to the ones i’ve heard of, that buried people with their belongings so they could be transferred to the afterlife? The ones that necessitated that burials be proper so as to ensure entry into an afterlife?