RELI 2732 Lecture 12: Lecture-12.docx
19 Jun 2015
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It"s quite possible that an atheist would wonder about other sources of What you believe on your death bed is not what you believe when you are watching a show or such. Over the past 30 years the belief of life after death hasn"t changed much. Turning away from religion and facing the world. A secular view takes in account only this life of the senses. Tony walter examined 3 prominent ideas of thesis. Thesis 1: death and the modern world is an alienating and terrifying experience. This view would say that without meaning that religion gives death, there is social isolation. Authors that support this view would say that the loss of religion has left people without the strategies that were a help to them. This view lead to a happy death/ natural death movement. Tony walter points out it is difficult to come to conclusion about over all affect of christian view on death.
