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"In 2004, scholars at UCLA revealed that college students involved in religious activities are likely to have better mental health. In 2006, population researchers at the University of Texas discovered that the more often you go to church, the longer you live. In the same year researchers at Duke University in America discovered that religious people have stronger immune systems than the irreligious. They also established that churchgoers have lower blood pressure.
Meanwhile in 2009 a team of Harvard psychologists discovered that believers who checked into hospital with broken hips reported less depression, had shorter hospital stays, and could hobble further when they left hospital – as compared to their similarly crippled but heathen fellow-sufferers.
The list goes on. In the last few years scientists have revealed that believers, compared to non-believers, have better outcomes from breast cancer, coronary disease, mental illness, Aids, and rheumatoid arthritis. Believers even get better results from IVF. Likewise, believers also report greater levels of happiness, are less likely to commit suicide, and cope with stressful events much better. Believers also have more kids.
What’s more, these benefits are visible even if you adjust for the fact that believers are less likely to smoke, drink or take drugs. And let’s not forget that religious people are nicer.They certainly give more money to charity than atheists, who are, according to the very latest survey, the meanest of all.
So which is the smart party, here? Is it the atheists, who live short, selfish, stunted little lives – often childless – before they approach hopeless death in despair, and their worthless corpses are chucked in a trench (or, if they are wrong, they go to Hell)? Or is it the believers, who live longer, happier, healthier, more generous lives, and who have more kids, and who go to their quietus with ritual dignity, expecting to be greeted by a smiling and benevolent God?"
There are a lot of interpretations of that association other than what was offered. Since they only looked at public religious activities - e.g. churchgoing - they had no data for people who are equally religious but non-attenders, meaning that what is being observed has more to do with the social support and commonality.
Also, there was no data on other religions and THEIR temple- or mosque-going.
Of course, it could just be because some people are too sick to attend church, and naturally they would die sooner.
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There are a lot of interpretations of that association other than what was offered. Since they only looked at public religious activities - e.g. churchgoing - they had no data for people who are equally religious but non-attenders, meaning that what is being observed has more to do with the social support and commonality.
Also, there was no data on other religions and THEIR temple- or mosque-going.
Of course, it could just be because some people are too sick to attend church, and naturally they would die sooner.
I'm gonna go get a beer and some chips and wait to see how the 'believers' explain this.
Perhaps if you read the article and supporting links you would see the point the author was trying to make. I guess atheists are too smart to read what others write yet still think they are still qualified to comment on the writing.
definition of insanity, trying the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.
How many times have they voted to repeal Obamacare?
Not enough times in my opinion. It's called following through on campaign promises something democrats have no idea how to do most likely because their voting blocks don't care.
Not enough times in my opinion. It's called following through on campaign promises something democrats have no idea how to do most likely because their voting blocks don't care.
Now back to the topic.
Again, what is the definition of insanity?
No, I think atheists are as normal as anyone else who doesn't go to church and doesn't pray.
We have lots of people who call themselves religious. We have few people who are actually religious.
I've read the story, where they focused in atheists and lumped large grouos of people as, "religious".
Atheists proclaim to not believe in something that isn't even there to begin with in their eyes. Makes no sense.
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