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[bennyboy]

Don't draw too much from correlations

ayy correct, maybe I was a bit biased there. Sorry if I offended any theists.

lol no it's not that

Correlations about people and health more often boil down to other factors, like socioeconomic status.

For example, a correlation will show that people living next to power lines get cancer more than others.  If you think that means power lines cause cancer, you're almost certainly wrong.  It's because poorer people live near power lines (because they're ugly and nobody wants to have a power line in front of their window).  Poor people tend to have bad health care, to eat a worse diet, etc.

So with religion/IQ/longevity, I can pretty much guarantee that the religion itself has nothing to do with anything.