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 Architects
of the Culture of Death
Authors: Donald De Marco & Benjamin Wiker
Table of Contents
Foreword, by Judie Brown
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. THE WILL WORSHIPPERS
Arthur Schopenhauer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Ayn Rand
2. THE EUGENIC EVOLUTIONISTS
Charles Darwin
Francis Galton
Ernst Haeckel
3. THE SECULAR UTOPIANISTS
Karl Marx
Auguste Comte
Judith Jarvis Thomson
4. THE ATHEISTIC EXISTENTIALISTS
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Elisabeth Badinter
5. THE PLEASURE SEEKERS
Sigmund Freud
Wilhelm Reich
Helen Gurley Brown
6. THE SEX PLANNERS
Margaret Mead
Alfred Kinsey
Margaret Sanger
Clarence Gamble
Alan Guttmacher
7. THE DEATH PEDDLERS
Derek Humphrey
Jack Kevorkian
Peter Singer
Conclusion: Personalism and the Culture of Life
Architects
of the Culture of Death
Authors: Donald De Marco & Benjamin Wiker
Length: 410 pages
Edition: Paperback
Your Price: $16.95
The “Culture of Death” has become a popular phrase, and is much
bandied about in academic circles. Yet, for most people, its meaning remains
vague and remote. DeMarco and Wiker have given the Culture of Death high
definition and frightening immediacy. They have exposed its roots by introducing
its “architects.” In a scholarly, yet reader-friendly delineation
of the mindsets of twenty-three influential thinkers, such as Ayn Rand,
Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, Alfred Kinsey, Margaret Sanger,
Jack Kevorkian, and Peter Singer, they make clear the aberrant thought and
malevolent intentions that have shaped the Culture of Death.
Still, this is not a book without hope. If the Culture of Death rests on
a fragmented view of the person and an eclipse of God, hope for the “Culture
of Life” rests on an understanding and restoration of the human being
as a person, and the rediscovery of a benevolent God. The “Personalism”
of John Paul II is an illuminating thread that runs through Architects,
serving as a hopeful antidote.
“An action-packed, riveting and educational exposé
that reveals little-known facts that are shocking and incredible. You
will not want to put this book down...”
—Judie Brown, President, Americal Life League
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Catherine of Siena
by Sigrid Undset
Sigrid Undset's Catherine of Siena is critically acclaimed as one of the best biographies of this well known, and amazing fourteenth-century saint. Known for
her historical fiction, which won her the Nobel Prize for literature in 1928, Undset based this factual work on primary sources, her own experiences living in Italy,
and her profound understanding of the human heart.
One of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century, Undset was no stranger to hagiography. Her meticulous research of medieval times, which bore such fruit in her
multi-volume masterpieces Kristin Lavransdatter and The Master of Hestviken, acquainted her with some of the holy men and women produced by the Age of Faith.
Their exemplary lives left a deep impression upon the author, an impression Undset credited as one of her reasons for entering the Church in 1924.
Catherine of Siena was a particular favorite of Undset, who also was a Third Order Dominican. An extraordinarily active, intelligent, and courageous woman,
Catherine at an early age devoted herself to the love of God. The intensity of her prayer, sacrifice, and service to the poor won her a reputation for holiness and wisdom,
and she was called upon to make peace between warring nobles. Believing that peace in Italy could be achieved only if the Pope, then living in France, returned to Rome,
Catherine boldly traveled to Avignon to meet with Pope Gregory XI. Continue reading....
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