Summary of Lee Strobel's The Case for Heaven

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#1 The desire to cheat death and live forever, to achieve immortality apart from God, has been a driving force throughout history. As for Jones, a few weeks after the initial call, a specialist realized there had been an error in the diagnosis.

#2 Jones’s research found that much of philosophy is dedicated to conquering the fear of death. For example, Plato wrote that those who practice philosophy correctly are cultivating dying.

#3 Death is a topic that fascinates philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists, and sociologists. Everyone is terrified by their own death, and they’re trying to do everything they can to compensate for it.

#4 The fear of death drives culture, according to social theorist Zygmunt Bauman. People are in bondage to a fear of dying, and this affects their behavior. They distract themselves from the fact that they’re going to die, and they depression.

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