Who fears death more? The Religious or Irreligious. Why do you think so?

Answer 1

Well I don't fear death - though I'll put it off as long as possible so I can see my children grow up, have fun myself and so on.

When I die the lights will go out and it will be as if I had never been. No hope of eternal bliss for me - ain't going to happen. I couldn't be happier. Because LIFE is what it's all about.

Answer 2

Both of them fear death. Actually, most of all human beings fear death.

Religion exists also because of this fear, so people had to come up with an after-life idea. It is not possible to state which group fears more, because inside each one there are people that fear death in many different levels and for different reasons.

Answer 3

From my own personal experience: I would say the religious folk (i.e. Christians) fear death more. Mostly because in the back of their minds, they do worry about what afterlife they are going to even if they don't admit it.

Atheists do not seem to fear death as much, they believe when they are dead, they're dead. They have no concerns about what comes after life as so many religious folk do.

But no one likes the thought of dying.

Answer 4

I am non-religious, but I do not fear death. Fearing death is a waste of time when it is inevitable and you don't have much time before it happens. Instead of being afraid of something that happens to everyone, why not just concentrate on making your life, and the lives of people around you, the best that they can be? You can worry about death when you're dying.

Answer 5

I think it is rather obvious that the religious fear death. In fact I'd go as far to say that religion in general (any denomination) is based on the very fear of death. Why else the need for the creation by men for a god, heaven, hell, angels, etc. This is all out of the fear of death.

Answer 6

Christians mainly. I say that because when i was a Christian I feared death, and I have seen many Christians live in fear of death in my life. Atheists do not seem to fear death. I am Wiccan now and did think i was going to die when I had my motorcycle wreck last summer when I flew over the car that ran out in front of me, but I had no fear. Christians asked me how I could face that without fear, and I just consider it part of life.

Answer 7

The religious. They have created the concept of hell and heaven out of fear of not knowing what happens after death.

Answer 8

The religious. They're the ones clinging to a belief in life after death.

Answer 9

You could be the most religious person in the world and be scared to death about dying.--

1. Hell-fire is taught by the vast majority of religions in the world, and people are not that sure if they will be there or not(IT IS A FALSE DOCTRINE)--but nevertheless the dread remains.

2. The answer to fear is-- what is God's disposition in dealing with people. Would it not be a perversion, lets say to burn people alive forever because they, stole something and would not repent, I would think so. Or for even worse things. The idea of using an never ending Holocaust --to continue the punishment, is that of a Hitler disposition.-
--Is God of that disposition?--I doubt that most vehemently
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Non-religionists, also have their own type fears, part of it comes from a narcisstic presence they might be developing. What happens to these ones, who lets say were great athletes and cannot bounce back from a debilatating disease--will there self love give them courage or do they need unusual support from outside sources or what-ever?
-Inner strength is fine, but if inner energy is really lacking, for most self-gods and there is no source of strength available from ourselves and nobody is around , then fear comes in, like an area that has been completely vacumed of air.--all sorts of negative vibes just fill that vacumed area, us.

Supposing there is a God of great comfort, who is available to all who wish to draw strength of character from Him? Will that help--I would think so, because I have been seriously ill since 1973 and I was once a champion gymnast, among other accomplishments. I have a wonderful wife of great support & love , but she is at work most of the time--I do indeed get it from the Almighty.

Can anyone really measure who fears the most--I doubt that simply because we are all individuals, even a survey would be far from accurate. If one claims religion, does that really mean he depends on the source of "dynamic energy" as stated here:?

(Isaiah 40:26-31) “26 “Raise YOUR eyes high up and see. Who has created these things?(stars) It is the One who is bringing forth the army of them even by number, all of whom he calls even by name. Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one [of them] is missing. ........
--(Please note, first that this dynamic energy is said to control and give strength to the stars in the heavens!)

--Note now in the continuance:

.....28 Have you not come to know or have you not heard? Jehovah, the Creator of the extremities of the earth, is a God to time indefinite. He does not tire out or grow weary. There is no searching out of his understanding. 29 He is giving to the tired one power; and to the one without dynamic energy he makes full might abound. 30 Boys will both tire out and grow weary, and young men themselves will without fail stumble, 31 but those who are hoping in Jehovah will regain power. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not tire out.””

-Now if that same source of dynamic energy(maintaining the heavans) can also be used to energize our true hope, faith, etc?
-Then we indeed have tapped into an amazing source to cope with fear and what-ever other negatives we humanly feel--would that make a major difference , I definetly think so.?

Answer 10

Well, Dr. Dumbass, I am one of the "irreligious" people of whom you speak, and I must say that death is not something that keeps me awake at night. I think it might be an intense fear of death in the first place that draws people to religion, or at the least hardcore churchies.