Supernatural belief reduces death anxiety more powerfully than any secular identity.

Evidence

But most importantly, it appears that religion provides meaning to the individual that helps the individual to maintain a sense of meaning and order in an otherwise chaotic system, in a way that political or other cultural meaning systems do not. Research on terror management theory (Vail et al., 2010) provides a most definitive answer to this question, in that religion or belief in a supernatural power does have a more powerful effect in reducing the fear of death than any other form of secular identity. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 920

Categorization

• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 920