My DMN colleague Bruce Tomaso is rightly stunned and appalled by the advocacy role "60 Minutes" big Mike Wallace has undertaken for that creepy murderer Jack Kevorkian. And if you had any doubt that there is something seriously demonic about Kevorkian, take a look at his paintings.
Mike Wallace and Doctor K
Thursday June 14, 2007
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Regarding Dr. Death: I don't think that Rod's mentioning the demonic aspects of the man is opinion at all. Rather it is a report of the facts. Look at the photos, or better yet, read the guy's own words which accompany his art.
Such as this, Dr. Death's comments on his painting, "Brotherhood"...
"Despite effusive lip service to sublime ideals, humanity's awe is lavished on its real god, Satan, whose suzerainty and leering confidence are sustained by his loyal subjects throughout the world --in Bosnia, Somalia, Ireland, India, the Middle East, Haiti, Cuba, Tibet, South Africa -- and Waco."
Read the other commentaries and you can't escape the fact that this guy hates humanity. No wonder he's so happy to help people die. To call that demonic, whether literally or metaphorically, is to report on the facts.
I looked at the paintings. Frankly, they remind me of art that a coffee house I once frequented used to put on the wall -- clearly the result of an adolescent need to shock the bourgeoise. Honestly, I wouldn't call this stuff so much demonic as ugly, poor quality, and childish.
To me, Kevorkian is not demonic, but rather a dangerous, reckless man who believes himself to be a martyr trying to advance the cause of human dignity.
As someone who is generally pro-choice, I have grave doubts about the whole "Right to Die" movement. I don't believe in heroic measures in terminal cases, necessarily, but I worry that the advocates for the "Right to Die" movement may some day find themselves replaced by advocates of the "Duty to Die" ("because you are old and in everyone's way, etc.") movement.
Nordog mentioning "demon" and "fact" in the same sentence borders on the sublimely absurd.
Well, they're bad,macabre paintings but his philosophical musings,except for the Easter one, are just reiterating how low humanity has fallen not advocating satanism. He's probably a bit disturbed but I don't think his paintings epitomize evil.That said, there's no way those paintings would ever enter my house let alone grace the walls.
TV! How are you?
FTR, I didn't mention "demon" as you assert, but it's good to see you're still out there representing the love that dare not shut its mouth.
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