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The Work of Ernest Becker with Daniel Liechty

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The Expanded Transference of Humanity

Becker: Different religions form in different ways, but the religions that are focused on one human being. The more they, the more the religion develops, he says, the actual humanity of that person starts to disappear. And what emerges then is the, is that person as a symbol for all these things that we then pile on, Becker writes.

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