culture of death

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In contemporary cultural discourse, a culture asserted to be inconsistent with the concept of a "culture of life," such as cultures that support contraception and abortion, euthanasia, capital punishment, human cloning, self-absorption, apathy or poverty, or fail to view human beings as ends in themselves in any other way.
  2. A society that reveres suicide bombers as martyrs.
    — But can one nevertheless regard suicide bombing as an expression of the political culture—the culture of death—that has emerged in modern times in the Middle East?

词形变化

cultures of death plural

词源

Coined by John Paul II.
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