Updated Feb 16, 2012 - 2:38 pm
Gruesome Remains of Communist Materialism
North Korea announced that the embalmed body of recently deceased dictator Kim Jong-il would go on permanent display next to the similarly preserved remains of his father and predecessor, Kim Il-sung.
The government imported a team of Russian experts, in charge of preserving Lenin's 90-year-old corpse, to supervise efforts to keep the flesh and skin of Kim Jong-il from natural decay. Many Communist regimes show the same gruesome fixation on embalming and displaying dead leaders-including Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Mao and many more. This contrasts with ancient Jewish law, which prohibits preserving and flaunting a body after death.
The Biblical worldview emphasizes immortality of the soul, so there's no point maintaining what's become an empty vessel. For Communist materialists, that corpse is all that's left-hence, ghoulish obsessions with fleshly remains.
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