Do you see any benefits to religious faith?

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How could you possibly demonstrate a causal link between mental health and the religion? To begin with, you're only going by what people say they believe. It's pretty damn hard to find out what they actually believe.

And once you've accounted for placebo, the huge social structure of religion and the oppression or people refusing to conform, is there anything magical left to explain? I think not.

Also, we're talking about religion in general here. If religion itself gives a benefit, does that mean they are all true? Seems a bit of a weird admission for any particular theist to make. I made a thread all about this before here. We see people from all religions claiming the same benefit, but they can't all be true. So just saying religion is beneficial would appear to be an admission that it's all placebo, social and psychological benefits of being part of a massive group of people.