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Belief in God can improve mental health outcomes.
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RE: Belief in God can improve mental health outcomes.
True. Evolution also would not favour belief in things true as opposed to what makes us prosper.

The concept of self, praise, perpetual identity, free-will, etc, all can be delusions as well. The difference with the former beliefs is that no one can do without them in reality, no matter what the intellectual position they take.

But what seemingly is true, is that man to an extent needs God and religion. Religion as a structural way to relate to the Divine. These needs don't make God or religion true.
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RE: Belief in God can improve mental health outcomes. - by MysticKnight - May 4, 2013 at 5:59 pm

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