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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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".

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And what reputedly happened after Jesus's death, the Resurrection, poses the biggest question of them all - was he the Son of God?

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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.

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