I have a cousin who is a fundamentalist Christian and her comments on the latest mass shooting...

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23. An ancient false conception about

their place in the universe makes death more fearful than it is. It could be out of the fight for survival, survival myth, clan control, who knows. But it's as old as humanity. I don't think it's hard to change though. It's the social training that makes it difficult or easy.

Example: "Mommy, where do we go when we die?"

Answer 1: "If your a good person you go to heaven. If your bad, you burn with the heat of a thousand suns, in hell for eternity."

Answer 2: "Your body returns to where all life begins, the earth. Then finally we all become the stuff of the stars."

I kind of like #2.