Are Atheists Mentally Ill

Here is an article about correlations between health and regular religious service attendance.We can’t find the page you are looking for.

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A professor of preventive medicine at Chicago's Rush University Medical Center, Dr. Powell was a nonchurch-goer who was very suspicious of such studies. Then in 2001, the National Institutes of Health asked her to lead a three-scientist panel that would review the mounting pile of medical literature purporting to link religion to health.

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The panel found scant evidence of the benefit of religion on illness, and found that patients who used religion to cope fared slightly worse than those who didn't.

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But the panel's examination of studies showing the effect of church attendance on health reached an altogether different conclusion. As Dr. Powell, who is continuing to research this issue, puts it: "After seeing the data, I think I should go to church."

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EvC is a social group for atheists? The article I linked to would not suggest that. Apparently, the object of worship is irrelevant.

That is true. But to be completely fair, the article does acknowledge that people who attend church services regularly exclude people who are sick and shut-in. The article also acknowledges that there is no gain from watching religious services on TV.ABE:The article also acknowledges a frustration mortality effect that might occur when prayer and fasting do not produce the expected results. I have seen this effect first-hand.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

I think your method of gathering information on religious background is highly flawed. I'm very familiar with the poor areas of Atlanta, and my experience is that religious affiliation is very high in those areas of town. Your impression does not appear to be based on anything factual. I have no idea how you would form that opinions about the religious backgrounds of people in ghettos other than by making naked, uninformed assumptions.Yes, they tend to be poor, and tend to have lower education. But they also tend to be black, a group which in the US has a far higher propensity for religious affiliation than do whites, with black women having the highest propensity.

How can you balance things by reciting complete nonsense? What you are suggesting is that you feel justified in being a complete fraud simply because you want to oppose something you don't want to hear.And those don't appear to be the words that I criticized. You posted complete and utter nonsense while claiming to know better. You have no idea what the religious backgrounds of the people in the ghettos happen to be.

Once I turn left on D Street, I find myself at my house.Does that statement imply that turning left on D is the only way to get to my house? Clearly not.