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Culture of Death and the Batman Shooting

Argyraspide Wrote: Jul 23, 2012 3:50 PM

I don't disagree with the author's premise, but I do take exception to this generation being pointed out as having a "culture of death" versus past generations in our history. I would point out that during most of our early history dueling, bear baiting, ratting, dog fighting, rough and tumble style fighting with eye-gouging and biting, whipping and other abuses of prisoners, children in virtual slavery in factories - I could go on and on - were common place. Freedom in those days meant much more than it does today. The founders would not have dreamed of imposing restrictions on that which was voluntarily done and without complaint by the participants. To know history is often to know truth.

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SOGAPreacher Wrote: Jul 23, 2012 4:33 PM

I understand where you are coming from and I agree to a point. All those things you listed were hands on. You got your hands dirty with all those activities. Today our children live in a virtual world where you can kill others, blow stuff up and create mayhem with no consequences, no dirty hands. The realism in these "games" is stunning. If they get tired or bored with the killing they simply turn it off. However those images are burned into thier minds creating that "culture of death".

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Argyraspide Wrote: Jul 23, 2012 6:22 PM

I have raised four daughters and I have eight grandchildren. I am very familiar with modern virtual "games" and I am also a retired Army veteran. The kids who use the computer games are not physically inured to the smell of death, blood and feces; to pain, guts and suffering, as the "hands on" kids of yesteryear. If you haven't smelled it, tasted it, felt it - you don't really know. Today kids think they are in horrible paid from a paper cut. Who is more inured - hands on or virtual? I daresay hands on. Yesteryear, parties and dances were held during a hanging and at the chopping block. Kids through rocks and taunted criminals in the stocks and in the cart on the way to the hanging or worse. I can't agree with you.

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Culture of Death and the Batman Shooting

Clearly, what our nation needs is more “separation of church and state.” If those obnoxious, right-wing Bible thumpers would simply quit bellowing about the need for revival – a return to the deeply held Judeo-Christian principles embraced by our Founding Fathers – America would be a much better place.

Secular-humanism – that’s the ticket! We need more reliance on man and less on God.

At the time of this writing, I’m sitting just a few miles from a Century 16 theatre in Aurora, Colo., where, in the early morning hours of July 20, 2012, a deranged, fame-starved gunman shot dead...