Sentences with phrase «larger fear of death»

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For example, parents may want to gift to a child via a large life insurance policy, but they hold back out of fear that the death benefit might reduce the child's motivation to pursue a degree or build a career.

Religion is, by and large, built on a profound fear of death... and the church has used that fear to perpetuate a system that is filled with hypocrisy, ritual, judgment, and conflict.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

It is not necessary to turn Luther into a closet Renaissance skeptic to appreciate Marius's insight that doubt and fear of death played a larger role in Luther's psyche and theology than scholars have appreciated.

What the denialists fear (perhaps more than death itself, or the undermining of life - supports for a large chunk of biota) is the loss of freedom and the collapse of wealth.

It is feared that the recent earthquake in China may be responsible for the death of more than 80,000, with a large percentage of them school - aged children.

Yet public fear led Japan's prime minister to intervene unnecessarily, prompting a panicked and needlessly large evacuation, which led to the deaths of over 1,500 people.