The death god, Mictlantecutli, is often depicted with a skull-like face in pre-Hispanic artefacts.
You might expect the religious to accept death as God's will and, while not hurrying towards it, not to seek to prolong their lives using heroic and often traumatic medical procedures.
When they were visited from the Most High God with the death of their 16-year-old son, they did not humble themselves before His mighty hand.
Longing for death on the island of Naxos, she is redeemed by the love of the god Bacchus, who can also seem like the messenger of death.
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The idea that materialism "can cure men of the fear of God and the fear of death, " as Dr. Kass puts it, is at least as old as ancient Greece.
This god Janus is concerned with unusual death, unusual family relationships, and wanton murder.
As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter, they reflect on God's purposes amid suffering and death.
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She maintains, however, that if her pleas were rejected, she would go into the death chamber "speaking out for the love of God".
In it, her father concluded that the concept of happiness can't apply to God and that, as long as pain and death are in the world, it can't apply to humans either.
Randy Blythe, frontman of US metal band Lamb of God, has been acquitted by a Czech court of causing the death of a fan at a concert in Prague in 2010.
Christopher Owens, one of the co-leaders of the operation, was a talented songwriter and a made-to-order rock star: he had been raised in the Children of God cult, whose refusal to accept modern medicine contributed to the death of his brother, and he had spent his teens struggling with drug addiction.
At least Gay Dad, Death In Vegas, the Beta Band and Unkle would stand a chance if there was a God Help Us If There's A War category.
And what reputedly happened after Jesus's death, the Resurrection, poses the biggest question of them all - was he the Son of God?
In "Careless Love" it's all here, from the time when Elvis' momma died and he uttered the words, "Oh God, everything I have is gone, " to his lower-than-low death, pajama bottoms at his ankles, fallen from the commode, face buried in his own vomit.
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