Weatherman2020
Diamond Member
Everyone wants to talk about guns and save the children, but more kids kill themselves than are murdered and nobody wants to address why.
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_of_death_age_group_2014_1050w760h.gif
Psychological Science gives the reason - as people lose touch with God they then lose purpose and meaning.
The researchers found that this factor of religiosity mediated the relationship between a country’s wealth and the perceived meaning in its citizen’s lives, meaning that it was the presence of religion that largely accounted for the gap between money and meaning. They analyzed other factors—education, fertility rates, individualism, and social support (having relatives and friends to count on in troubled times)—to see if they could explain the findings, but in the end it came down to religion.
Where Life Has Meaning: Poor, Religious Countries
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_of_death_age_group_2014_1050w760h.gif
Psychological Science gives the reason - as people lose touch with God they then lose purpose and meaning.
The researchers found that this factor of religiosity mediated the relationship between a country’s wealth and the perceived meaning in its citizen’s lives, meaning that it was the presence of religion that largely accounted for the gap between money and meaning. They analyzed other factors—education, fertility rates, individualism, and social support (having relatives and friends to count on in troubled times)—to see if they could explain the findings, but in the end it came down to religion.
Where Life Has Meaning: Poor, Religious Countries