We shouldn't be gratuitously obnoxious, we should be purposefully obnoxious.
We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.
Human beings are still fish.
And of course death can't be conquered...but oh, the battle can be glorious.
It's amazing how much detail Catholics will go into documenting why people shouldn't do the things that they all do anyway.
Religion is a barbarous obsidian knife poised over our chests put it in a cabinet and admire it as a work of art, but don't ever wield the damned thing ever again.