Are religious people basically cowards, afraid to face death for what it is?

Answer 1

In short, yes.

Answer 2

You write:

"Are religious people basically cowards, afraid to face death for what it is?"

Did you not attend school in all the years you have been on this earth? Have you not read the Bible for knowledge of all the people that took a stand in faith and died for their beliefs.

You are a strange man if that is the case. You stuck your head in the sand your whole life and just recently popped it up and wrote this stupid question.

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Answer 3

Only a self realised God conscious person is unafraid of death, this is not an artificial imposition on the mind or a psychological device for fearless living, the self realised soul is experiencing the essence of real life on the spiritual platform of existence, which is a superior dimension supporting the ever changing, relative material energy.

We, as living spirit souls, the symptom of which is consciousness, are part and parcel of the supreme soul or God, to revive this eternally existing relationship is only possible by attaining the spiritual platform, which every living entity in the human form of life has the potential to do, but few make a serious attempt at, preferring to hover on the mental platform and using the speculative notions of the mind to determine an explanation based on pre-conceived notions of psychological premises that denote a lack of knowledge of spiritual reality.

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Answer 4

Not all religious people believe in eternal life, or eternal preservation of one's identity. Here is a good example: the Sadducees did not believe in an eternal life for one's soul, yet they were very religious. However, your question is a good one, in that it is very apparent that many people fear death, particularly the cessation of one's individual personality, such that religion becomes a more appealing concept. But even if one were not to have eternal life as a possibility, would it be any less possible to believe that some supreme being wants the world to be a certain way? Would it be possibly easier (and more cowardly) to choose to assume that life is meaningless, and that there is no God? How much easier it would be if you did not have to think about God seeing and judging your decisions. That's what makes atheism, deism, and agnosticism so appealing--no God judging. It's also why there are people who prefer to think that "love is God"--that God is just some vague, unthinking life force that never judges. I think it takes great courage to accept the idea of a God that judges and wants things to be a certain way.

Answer 5

If you read up on religious figures throughout history you will find many well documented accounts of people of faith having the courage to face death rather than compromise their beliefs. If they were cowards, they would have turned and ran.

I think that there are probably as many people that chose religion because they are afraid of death as there are people that chose atheism because they are afraid of God.

Answer 6

I wont speak for everybody but although I'm not a coward I am afraid to face death period.. Are you saying you are not afraid of facing death. If not I suggest your thinking may be somewhat impaired.

Answer 7

And just what do you think death is?
Personally, I don't like the term religious applied to me although some people might call me that. What I have is a RELATIONSHIP rather than a religion. I have a relationship with a loving, kind and merciful Heavenly Father, who has saved me through the shed blood of Jesus Christ and blessed me with the Holy Spirit to teach and guide me in my earthly journey so that when death comes, I need have no fear of facing the experience. I will close my eyes in death and open them in His glorious Presence to live with Him forever.
So, to me death is only a transition from my earthly existence to my heavenly and eternal existence.

Answer 8

Living entity, the spirit soul is eternal. It is unnatural for it to die. Even if you say you are not afraid of death, it does not change the fact that you are an eternal being and death is unnatural for you. Because the living entity ignorantly misidentifies with the temporary body, it has to accept death. But intelligent people inquire: "I do not want to die, why death is imposed upon me?" In this way if they continue inquiry they come to know how to conquer death. They actually come to realize their eternal identity in this very lifetime. They factually realize it, not simply sentimentally imagine that there is some existence beyond the body. If you are an intelligent person, you will also want to realize you eternal identity, instead of accepting death again and again.

Answer 9

No, I'm not afraid of death...actually the opposite. See when I die I believe that this life ends and eternity begins...begins in a better place...begins in a hurt-less, peaceful, and completely awesome place...a better place...the most wonderful...undefinable place I couldn't even possibly imagine. So not us, spiritually...religious people are not cowards, but brave...we believe and have faith in something you can not physically see, touch, smell, taste, or even imagine.

Answer 10

I am a youth pastor. I lead young people from junior high through college age into salvation and down the path of righteousness every minute of every day. I would endure whatever it takes to see just one of them make heaven on judgment day. Physical death doesn't even begin to frighten me, but spiritual death (separation from God) terrifies me to the point that it keeps me on the right path. If you see this view as cowardice, then call me Chicken Little.

Answer 11

Religious people are just that! Religious people Those of us without religion are just that as well! How you choose to face death is up to you.