Personal experience says religious folks are more prone to mental diseases

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Actually, studies show that, for the most part, participation in religion that is positive has a positive effect on mental health or perceived mental health. In those instances where religion has a negative effect (persecution/fixated on sin) more mental disorders are identified. 

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/192d/21...a10c8d.pdf

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/202/1/68

Makes perfect sense. The only logical conclusion to draw is, why take the risk when the rule book reads like a fucking room in an asylum where the walls are smeared with the feces of its schizophrenic occupant trying to communicate?

I just look at it as a mental crutch that people have been programmed to need.