{"id":3757,"date":"2011-01-25T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/01\/culture-of-death-equals-dead-culture.html"},"modified":"2011-01-25T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T14:48:00","slug":"culture-of-death-equals-dead-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2011\/01\/culture-of-death-equals-dead-culture.html","title":{"rendered":"Culture of death equals dead culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>While American teens are fighting for the right to watch their peers engaged in sex, drugs, and drinking on MTV\u2019s latest foray into Maladomini, and American adults are apparently fighting for the right to watch American teens indulge in simulated sex, drugs, and drinking, and oft repeated defense for the show is \u2018you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/01\/23\/mtvs-skins-airs-teen-lesbian-love-scene-video_n_812725.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">should see Britain\u2019s version<\/a>!\u2019\u00a0 Which strikes me as weird.\u00a0 If I wanted to start my own professional football team, I would not model my new endeavor after the Cleveland Browns, much as my family\u2019s heritage demands a certain brand loyalty.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Looking to Britain, like looking to most of Europe, for inspiration is a little bit the same thing.\u00a0 We are talking about a civilization that is already past the September of its years.\u00a0 A civilization that tossed aside the last vestiges of its religious and moral heritage only to plunge into the most disastrously murderous century of all time.\u00a0 From the ashes of the carnage, it decided the best thing to do was not care.\u00a0 Just have lots of sex, drugs, and stop with the whole \u2018things matter\u2019 rubbish.\u00a0 Yet to that end, it still managed to maintain hold of several stellar philosophies from the days\u00a0of yore, particularly those centered around reducing the human person to a commodity to be harvested at best, exterminated at worst.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Somehow it all links together, that the parts of Europe Americans, particularly American progressives, are all ga-ga over, continually produce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercatornet.com\/careful\/view\/8598\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this type<\/a> of wonderful testimonial to its high moral principles.\u00a0 Again, once Europe has been swallowed up by the expanding Islamic civilization, those generations lucky enough to make it to birth will be scratching their heads and wondering what the hell went wrong.\u00a0 Stories like the 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