Religion gives us comfort. It tells us why this and that happens, and how. It pull shtick out of thin air, hoping to ease your mind and then you can drone on without thinking about what you just agreed to.
Scientists--or, so I've read in Psychology Today Mag--have studied the affects of 'religious vs. non-religious' individuals. The religious individuals showed signs of less stress, lower blood pressure, decreased symptoms of depression and a whole slew of other mental-physical health stuff.
Now, if this is so, perhaps it's not RELIGION, per se, that is makeing us more comfortable, but something else? Something deeply psychological that gives us health--but what is it?
What is a good healthy psychological replacement of religion? That is, the healthy things that religion does for you--because religion does more harm than good--they can be using that money to help the poor, the weak, put it with better research, and here they are, building up statures, and haveing religious wars and conflict all the time (poor little pascifist me!)...
So terrible.
But anyways,
what is a good replacment of this "comfort"?
Scientists--or, so I've read in Psychology Today Mag--have studied the affects of 'religious vs. non-religious' individuals. The religious individuals showed signs of less stress, lower blood pressure, decreased symptoms of depression and a whole slew of other mental-physical health stuff.
Now, if this is so, perhaps it's not RELIGION, per se, that is makeing us more comfortable, but something else? Something deeply psychological that gives us health--but what is it?
What is a good healthy psychological replacement of religion? That is, the healthy things that religion does for you--because religion does more harm than good--they can be using that money to help the poor, the weak, put it with better research, and here they are, building up statures, and haveing religious wars and conflict all the time (poor little pascifist me!)...
So terrible.
But anyways,
what is a good replacment of this "comfort"?
