Religious people are happier than those who don't actively participate in a faith, study finds

[LittleNipper]

Religious people are happier than those who don't actively participate in a faith, study finds | Daily Mail Online

Religious people are happier than people who don't actively participate in a faith, according to a study.

I have found this to be true about myself.

I have faith in a God who loves me, and faith that after I die, I will be with God in a place of eternal happiness.

That's a strong dose of medicine that more than overcomes the many struggles I have faced in life.

I sometimes wonder how people who don't believe in God maintain their equilibrium. It must be tough to believe that death leads to nothingness, and this life is all there is.

I think it would be even harder to believe this as one gets older and health begins to fail.

I talked to a caretaker once, and she told me that people who believe in God and have a good support network have an easier time dying than those who don't.

And there's the saying that there's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.

I have no idea if that is true, but it's a saying.

Question for atheists, how do you deal with the problems of life knowing that there is nothing beyond this life?

Ignorance is bliss, I guess.

faking belief in a god is NOT going to make me happier.

spending hours in a church surrounded by simple minded morons quaking and shaking to a nonexistent god is NOT going to make me happier..

In fact....I was NEVER happier than when I walked away from religion!

I have been told that lots of crazy people in loony bins are very happy....

I guess they don't need religion.

Who says that Christians don't know GOD? Just because you don't seek GOD doesn't meant that others have not already discovered HIM. Man made religions are not based on a personal relationship with GOD --- biblical Christianity is.

 

[Taz]

Religious people are happier than those who don't actively participate in a faith, study finds | Daily Mail Online

Religious people are happier than people who don't actively participate in a faith, according to a study.

I have found this to be true about myself.

I have faith in a God who loves me, and faith that after I die, I will be with God in a place of eternal happiness.

That's a strong dose of medicine that more than overcomes the many struggles I have faced in life.

I sometimes wonder how people who don't believe in God maintain their equilibrium. It must be tough to believe that death leads to nothingness, and this life is all there is.

I think it would be even harder to believe this as one gets older and health begins to fail.

I talked to a caretaker once, and she told me that people who believe in God and have a good support network have an easier time dying than those who don't.

And there's the saying that there's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.

I have no idea if that is true, but it's a saying.

Question for atheists, how do you deal with the problems of life knowing that there is nothing beyond this life?

Ignorance is bliss, I guess.

faking belief in a god is NOT going to make me happier.

spending hours in a church surrounded by simple minded morons quaking and shaking to a nonexistent god is NOT going to make me happier..

In fact....I was NEVER happier than when I walked away from religion!

I have been told that lots of crazy people in loony bins are very happy....

I guess they don't need religion.

Who says that Christians don't know GOD? Just because you don't seek GOD doesn't meant that others have not already discovered HIM. Man made religions are not based on a personal relationship with GOD --- biblical Christianity is.

You have a personal relationship with a book of fiction.

 

[Crepitus]

Religious people are happier than those who don't actively participate in a faith, study finds | Daily Mail Online

Religious people are happier than people who don't actively participate in a faith, according to a study.

I have found this to be true about myself.

I have faith in a God who loves me, and faith that after I die, I will be with God in a place of eternal happiness.

That's a strong dose of medicine that more than overcomes the many struggles I have faced in life.

I sometimes wonder how people who don't believe in God maintain their equilibrium. It must be tough to believe that death leads to nothingness, and this life is all there is.

I think it would be even harder to believe this as one gets older and health begins to fail.

I talked to a caretaker once, and she told me that people who believe in God and have a good support network have an easier time dying than those who don't.

And there's the saying that there's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.

I have no idea if that is true, but it's a saying.

Question for atheists, how do you deal with the problems of life knowing that there is nothing beyond this life?

If we're believing studies now I have one that says differently.

The 2018 UN World Happiness Report: most atheistic (and socially well off) countries are the happiest, while religious countries are poor and unhappy

 

[badger2]

Counting on a Pew report?

'Deleuze's atheist critique is powerful, but so are the forces of theogonic reproduction that render such doctrines so resilient. This is why here too I will link his philosophical concepts to insights extracted from the bio-cultural study of religion, demonstrating how together they help to drive a wedge between the sacerdotal and iconoclastic trajectories, releasing the latter to produce an immanent ethics of joy as it is liberated from moral philosophies that depend on Christ (or other ideal Signifiers) that mediate the transcendence of a supernatural Agent.'
(Shults, Iconoclastic Theology, p. 103)

 

[bodecea]

Religious people are happier than those who don't actively participate in a faith, study finds | Daily Mail Online

Religious people are happier than people who don't actively participate in a faith, according to a study.

I have found this to be true about myself.

I have faith in a God who loves me, and faith that after I die, I will be with God in a place of eternal happiness.

That's a strong dose of medicine that more than overcomes the many struggles I have faced in life.

I sometimes wonder how people who don't believe in God maintain their equilibrium. It must be tough to believe that death leads to nothingness, and this life is all there is.

I think it would be even harder to believe this as one gets older and health begins to fail.

I talked to a caretaker once, and she told me that people who believe in God and have a good support network have an easier time dying than those who don't.

And there's the saying that there's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.

I have no idea if that is true, but it's a saying.

Question for atheists, how do you deal with the problems of life knowing that there is nothing beyond this life?

Ignorance is bliss, I guess.

faking belief in a god is NOT going to make me happier.

spending hours in a church surrounded by simple minded morons quaking and shaking to a nonexistent god is NOT going to make me happier..

In fact....I was NEVER happier than when I walked away from religion!

I have been told that lots of crazy people in loony bins are very happy....

I guess they don't need religion.

Who says that Christians don't know GOD? Just because you don't seek GOD doesn't meant that others have not already discovered HIM. Man made religions are not based on a personal relationship with GOD --- biblical Christianity is.

christianity is not exclusive. There are many religions and many gods....and goddesses.

 

[anynameyouwish]

Religious people are happier than those who don't actively participate in a faith, study finds | Daily Mail Online

Religious people are happier than people who don't actively participate in a faith, according to a study.

I have found this to be true about myself.

I have faith in a God who loves me, and faith that after I die, I will be with God in a place of eternal happiness.

That's a strong dose of medicine that more than overcomes the many struggles I have faced in life.

I sometimes wonder how people who don't believe in God maintain their equilibrium. It must be tough to believe that death leads to nothingness, and this life is all there is.

I think it would be even harder to believe this as one gets older and health begins to fail.

I talked to a caretaker once, and she told me that people who believe in God and have a good support network have an easier time dying than those who don't.

And there's the saying that there's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.

I have no idea if that is true, but it's a saying.

Question for atheists, how do you deal with the problems of life knowing that there is nothing beyond this life?

Ignorance is bliss, I guess.

faking belief in a god is NOT going to make me happier.

spending hours in a church surrounded by simple minded morons quaking and shaking to a nonexistent god is NOT going to make me happier..

In fact....I was NEVER happier than when I walked away from religion!

I have been told that lots of crazy people in loony bins are very happy....

I guess they don't need religion.

Who says that Christians don't know GOD? Just because you don't seek GOD doesn't meant that others have not already discovered HIM. Man made religions are not based on a personal relationship with GOD --- biblical Christianity is.

biblical christianity IS man made

 

[bodecea]

What it gets down to is this: If you believe in a Higher Power, whose message has been passed down through a thousand generations and still "works," you are more likely to be happy that some smart-ass, college-educated twit who, in essence, thinks that HIS views are superior to all others.

This is one reason why Leftists cannot debate any issue substantively. Their only response is an ad hominem attack: You are a RACIST, homophobe xenophobe, misogynist, bigot. As if that were a cogent argument.

"What it gets down to is this: If you believe in a Higher Power, whose message has been passed down through a thousand generations and still "works,"


Not all of it "works"

the slavery part was actually kind of bad

as was the male dominance part

and the anti gay crap was a bit much

as were the attacks on pagans, heathens, unbelievers, idolators, witches....

Actually...MOST of it didn't work at all!

And the parts that DID work (don't kill, don't steal, don't lie)

were actually given to us by the Greeks and the Code of Hammurabi.....LONG before the christians STOLE them....(see the irony?....the christians STOLE "don't steal!"....funny.....)

As they stole most of their "holy" days. Christmas....pagan. Easter...pagan. St Valentine's Day...pagan. Halloween/All Saint's Day...pagan.

 

[badger2]

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's idea that xianity and paganism were the same religion, was close.

Bernie Sanders's socialism as the middle tine:

Impossible Trident
Impossible trident - Wikipedia

'It is not naturally evident that the god of theology, who is both three and one and absolutely perfect and omnipotent, actually exists or that he is good or wise, although "from this it does follow that we cannot prove another conclusion in which 'good' or 'wise' is predicated of a concept of god, if by 'god' we understand 'something to which nothing is superior in perfection or prior.' For the existence of god in this sense can be demonstrated." Philosophy's use to theology therefore rests on its ability to demonstrate conclusions of the same type as theology produces using a different middle term. Nevertheless, to the degree that reason is stripped of the tools used for explicating these traits, its applications are minimal. It is not even possible to follow Scotus in demonstrating the existence of only one god, let alone show whether any being could be infinite in the theological sense. Reason can show that a being to which nothing else is more noble must exist, but it cannot say that only one such being exists.'
(Widder N, Genealogies of Difference)

Therefore, if there is such a thing as god, it is necessarily mortal. The pivot point that makes socialism impossible is necessary labor vs. surplus labor.

 

[Vandalshandle]

My step-father had a brother who was deliriously happy. He was crazy as a loon, but he was happy. He was even happy when he was institutionalized. They told him that he was in a Caribbean resort, and he believed them.

 

[buttercup]

So much ignorance on this thread. And I'm not talking about the OP.

 

[anynameyouwish]

So much ignorance on this thread. And I'm not talking about the OP.

Mindless belief in a dangerous religion IS ignorance.

 

[buttercup]

So much ignorance on this thread. And I'm not talking about the OP.

Mindless belief in a dangerous religion IS ignorance.

I don't believe in "religion."

 

[ding]

So you deluded yourself with a fairy tale and this makes you happy. Whatever works I guess.

You don’t strike me as being very happy.

So for argument's sake, let's say that's true. Would believing in a fairy tale change that? Are all people of religion happy?

It’s not a fairytale. It’s how ancient man passed down important truths thousands of years ago.

Just the ones who believe they are being tested.

 

[Taz]

So you deluded yourself with a fairy tale and this makes you happy. Whatever works I guess.

You don’t strike me as being very happy.

So for argument's sake, let's say that's true. Would believing in a fairy tale change that? Are all people of religion happy?

It’s not a fairytale. It’s how ancient man passed down important truths thousands of years ago.

Just the ones who believe they are being tested.

God is unproven. And not all people with religion are happy.

 

[ding]

Religious people are happier than those who don't actively participate in a faith, study finds | Daily Mail Online

Religious people are happier than people who don't actively participate in a faith, according to a study.

I have found this to be true about myself.

I have faith in a God who loves me, and faith that after I die, I will be with God in a place of eternal happiness.

That's a strong dose of medicine that more than overcomes the many struggles I have faced in life.

I sometimes wonder how people who don't believe in God maintain their equilibrium. It must be tough to believe that death leads to nothingness, and this life is all there is.

I think it would be even harder to believe this as one gets older and health begins to fail.

I talked to a caretaker once, and she told me that people who believe in God and have a good support network have an easier time dying than those who don't.

And there's the saying that there's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.

I have no idea if that is true, but it's a saying.

Question for atheists, how do you deal with the problems of life knowing that there is nothing beyond this life?

Here's the logical flaw in this thread, right at the beginning:

Religious people are happier than people who don't actively participate in a faith

Those are not contrasts. You don't have to "participate" in some self-feeding echo-hive to be religious. At all. That's not "being religious" --- that's joining a club.

Believing in a higher purpose gives meaning to life such that experiencing difficulties is viewed through a different lens.

It gives meaning to YOUR life, which is kind of sad since you’re saying that it would have no meaning otherwise.

That is exactly what I would have expected you to say, Taz. The very best you can hope for is to suffer without complaint.

 

[ding]

So you deluded yourself with a fairy tale and this makes you happy. Whatever works I guess.

You don’t strike me as being very happy.

So for argument's sake, let's say that's true. Would believing in a fairy tale change that? Are all people of religion happy?

It’s not a fairytale. It’s how ancient man passed down important truths thousands of years ago.

Just the ones who believe they are being tested.

God is unproven. And not all people with religion are happy.

That sounds like an argument Satan would make.

 

[Taz]

Religious people are happier than those who don't actively participate in a faith, study finds | Daily Mail Online

Religious people are happier than people who don't actively participate in a faith, according to a study.

I have found this to be true about myself.

I have faith in a God who loves me, and faith that after I die, I will be with God in a place of eternal happiness.

That's a strong dose of medicine that more than overcomes the many struggles I have faced in life.

I sometimes wonder how people who don't believe in God maintain their equilibrium. It must be tough to believe that death leads to nothingness, and this life is all there is.

I think it would be even harder to believe this as one gets older and health begins to fail.

I talked to a caretaker once, and she told me that people who believe in God and have a good support network have an easier time dying than those who don't.

And there's the saying that there's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.

I have no idea if that is true, but it's a saying.

Question for atheists, how do you deal with the problems of life knowing that there is nothing beyond this life?

Here's the logical flaw in this thread, right at the beginning:

Religious people are happier than people who don't actively participate in a faith

Those are not contrasts. You don't have to "participate" in some self-feeding echo-hive to be religious. At all. That's not "being religious" --- that's joining a club.

Believing in a higher purpose gives meaning to life such that experiencing difficulties is viewed through a different lens.

It gives meaning to YOUR life, which is kind of sad since you’re saying that it would have no meaning otherwise.

That is exactly what I would have expected you to say, Taz. The very best you can hope for is to suffer without complaint.

Couldn’t find anything relevant to say?

 

[ding]

Religious people are happier than those who don't actively participate in a faith, study finds | Daily Mail Online

Religious people are happier than people who don't actively participate in a faith, according to a study.

I have found this to be true about myself.

I have faith in a God who loves me, and faith that after I die, I will be with God in a place of eternal happiness.

That's a strong dose of medicine that more than overcomes the many struggles I have faced in life.

I sometimes wonder how people who don't believe in God maintain their equilibrium. It must be tough to believe that death leads to nothingness, and this life is all there is.

I think it would be even harder to believe this as one gets older and health begins to fail.

I talked to a caretaker once, and she told me that people who believe in God and have a good support network have an easier time dying than those who don't.

And there's the saying that there's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.

I have no idea if that is true, but it's a saying.

Question for atheists, how do you deal with the problems of life knowing that there is nothing beyond this life?

Here's the logical flaw in this thread, right at the beginning:

Religious people are happier than people who don't actively participate in a faith

Those are not contrasts. You don't have to "participate" in some self-feeding echo-hive to be religious. At all. That's not "being religious" --- that's joining a club.

Believing in a higher purpose gives meaning to life such that experiencing difficulties is viewed through a different lens.

It gives meaning to YOUR life, which is kind of sad since you’re saying that it would have no meaning otherwise.

That is exactly what I would have expected you to say, Taz. The very best you can hope for is to suffer without complaint.

Couldn’t find anything relevant to say?

I believe it is extremely relevant.

 

[Taz]

So you deluded yourself with a fairy tale and this makes you happy. Whatever works I guess.

You don’t strike me as being very happy.

So for argument's sake, let's say that's true. Would believing in a fairy tale change that? Are all people of religion happy?

It’s not a fairytale. It’s how ancient man passed down important truths thousands of years ago.

Just the ones who believe they are being tested.

God is unproven. And not all people with religion are happy.

That sounds like an argument Satan would make.

Satan is a myth as well. But you’re going to prove him to me, aren’t you?

 

[ding]

You don’t strike me as being very happy.

So for argument's sake, let's say that's true. Would believing in a fairy tale change that? Are all people of religion happy?

It’s not a fairytale. It’s how ancient man passed down important truths thousands of years ago.

Just the ones who believe they are being tested.

God is unproven. And not all people with religion are happy.

That sounds like an argument Satan would make.

Satan is a myth as well. But you’re going to prove him to me, aren’t you?

Is he? You sure do make his arguments for him.