Kids Raised With Religion Do Much Better

[seer]

Imagine that...

Associations of Religious Upbringing With Subsequent Health and Well-Being From Adolescence to Young Adulthood: An Outcome-Wide Analysis

...Compared with no attendance, at least weekly attendance of religious services was associated with greater life satisfaction and positive affect, a number of character strengths, lower probabilities of marijuana use and early sexual initiation, and fewer lifetime sexual partners. Analyses of prayer or meditation yielded similar results. Although decisions about religion are not shaped principally by health, encouraging service attendance and private practices in adolescents who already hold religious beliefs may be meaningful avenues of development and support, possibly leading to better health and well-being.

https://academic.oup.com/aje/advance...kwy142/5094534

[carpedm9587]

Imagine that...

The point being...?

[seer]

The point being...?

That religion is good for the soul because we are intuitively fulfilling what we were created for.

[carpedm9587]

That religion is good for the soul because we are intuitively fulfilling what we were created for.

Or it's a habit deeply ingrained after centuries of indoctrination, and the process of separating from it will be disruptive. Change is pretty much always disruptive.

You cannot demonstrate your assertion to be true. You can merely assert it. Correlation is not causation...

[Cow Poke]

This thread is about me, isn't it?

[seer]

Or it's a habit deeply ingrained after centuries of indoctrination, and the process of separating from it will be disruptive. Change is pretty much always disruptive.

You cannot demonstrate your assertion to be true. You can merely assert it. Correlation is not causation...

Just as you can not demonstrate your assertion to be true, but that is exactly what I would expect an atheist say. Try and be a bit more original Carp...

[seer]

This thread is about me, isn't it?

Yes Rachel, it is...

[Cow Poke]

Yes Rachel, it is...

[JimL]

Imagine that...

Seems to satisfy the priests as well!

[carpedm9587]

This thread is about me, isn't it?

I think we can safely say that all of TWeb is about you, CP...

[carpedm9587]

Just as you can not demonstrate your assertion to be true, but that is exactly what I would expect an atheist say. Try and be a bit more original Carp...

I made no assertion, Seer, other than to point out that there are other possibilities.


And sometimes the truth is not all that original...

[seer]

I made no assertion, Seer, other than to point out that there are other possibilities.

The other possibilities are also assertions, ones that would be necessary from an atheistic worldview.

And sometimes the truth is not all that original...

Which truth is that?

[Cow Poke]

I think we can safely say that all of TWeb is about you, CP...

Gorsh, you say the sweetest things!

[carpedm9587]

The other possibilities are also assertions, ones that would be necessary from an atheistic worldview.

Yes - every statement is an assertion. My point was that I was not asserting "it is this way." I was pointing out that you have correlation without an explanation for causation. You asserted the cause is one thing, and I pointed out that other possibilities exist which you have not excluded. You've merely asserted "it has to be my way."

Which truth is that?

I was not speaking of a particular truth. I was making a general observation about "truth." The measure of "truth" is not "originality." Just like the measure of "truth" is not "influence."

[carpedm9587]

Gorsh, you say the sweetest things!

Only to you, big-guy...