“Though addressing mortality is certainly part of many traditions, reducing religion to death anxiety misses its roles in celebration, community building, meaning-making, and daily guidance for living well. Religious communities gather for births, marriages, harvests, and countless life affirmations beyond funeral services.” Oh, bless that sentence. It sounds like someone wrote it while holding hands with a priest and a therapist at the same time. The tone is pure “let’s not be too harsh,” as if religion were a misunderstood friend instead of humanity’s longest-running existential coping mechanism. Let’s stop pretending this is complicated. Religion is the fear of death, but dressed up. It is mortality anxiety turned into poetry, ritual, and salesmanship. The pitch is simple: you die, but you don’t really die. Just sign the faith contract and hand over your reason at the door. Sure, religion hosts weddings, births, and harvest festivals. But those are funerals in disguise. Every ...
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