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Episode 52 - Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
One year birthday of the Everyone's Agnostic podcast! This week we feature Dr. Sheldon Solomon lecturing on Ernest Becker's Pulitzer Prize winner book, "The Denial of Death." Becker reveals how and why we humans look to constructed narratives to ease our anxiety around death. This is the crux of why we need religion and why we so easily feel threatened by those with different beliefs. If this won't change your life, nothing will. \xa0
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\nThis episode was recorded on June 27th, 2015. Our opening monologue is an excerpt from a Youtube called \u201cTowering Mountain of Ignorance\u201d by Hank Green. The opening music is \u201cnever know\u201d by Jack Johnson, and The musical segues on this episode were written and performed by Cass Midgley.