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vor 16 Jahren
The human beast�s most primal fear is of its own mortality.
Religion's function is to deny this reality, through the promise of
an afterlife�at least that is what Freud and many others have
speculated. But is there any science to back up this claim? Terror
Management Theory (TMT) attempts to explain how religion, and ones
worldview more generally, can allay fears of death by offering
either literal or symbolic forms of immortality. But easing this
death anxiety can come at great cost: simplicity in thinking,
deference to authority, hostility towards outsiders. For this
episode the doubtcasters discuss TMT research and perhaps it�s
most controversial finding: fear of death is closely tied with not
just religious conservatism, but political conservatism as well.
Also on this episode: a Skeptics Sunday School which explores views
of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible and listener T. Robinson
offers up this week�s Gospel of Doubt. Reasonable Doubts: Your
skeptical guide to religion offering news and commentary of
interest to skeptics, atheists, humanists, apologists looking for a
challenge and freethinkers of all persuasions.
Religion's function is to deny this reality, through the promise of
an afterlife�at least that is what Freud and many others have
speculated. But is there any science to back up this claim? Terror
Management Theory (TMT) attempts to explain how religion, and ones
worldview more generally, can allay fears of death by offering
either literal or symbolic forms of immortality. But easing this
death anxiety can come at great cost: simplicity in thinking,
deference to authority, hostility towards outsiders. For this
episode the doubtcasters discuss TMT research and perhaps it�s
most controversial finding: fear of death is closely tied with not
just religious conservatism, but political conservatism as well.
Also on this episode: a Skeptics Sunday School which explores views
of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible and listener T. Robinson
offers up this week�s Gospel of Doubt. Reasonable Doubts: Your
skeptical guide to religion offering news and commentary of
interest to skeptics, atheists, humanists, apologists looking for a
challenge and freethinkers of all persuasions.
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