(January 23, 2025 at 11:14 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Being connected to others is good for longevity. Some people find that connection at church. No magic needed.
There is no scientific study that says how going to the mass prolongs life. That guy made some study and concluded that people will live longer if they attend mass regularly, but he's not a scientist, he's a movie director.
It is more likely that going to the mass frequently will give you cancer. I mean just consider inhaling all those fumes from hundreds of candles. It's almost like inhaling fumes from hundreds of nylon bags set on fire. And here's a real scientific study that shows that long term inhaling of incense is associated with an increased risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the respiratory tract.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PM...ry%20tract.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
