Christianity and its effect on self-worth

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Me thinks I smell foolishness, foolishness that come from a hater of what I believe in and run down my belief, nope it's hypocrisy I smell from you.

Sorry, but "Oh yeah, well you're dumb!" and "No, you!" are not rebuttals.

Setting yourself above your fellow atheist I see, not a surprise, not at all.

Don't try to put words in my mouth, GC.

The information came from some of the most respected institutions in this country, just because it was found on a site you dislike has nothing to do with the validity of the information. But then you would argue with yourself just to say you won. Looks like your fun turned into a puddle of drool.

GC

This has nothing to do with what I like and dislike, GC. It's a demonstrable fact that conservapedia lies almost constantly, and distorts reality where it can; it has an ideological bias toward extreme conservative christianity. The guy who runs it outright bans anyone who writes from a viewpoint he dislikes; this is a place for what he thinks, not what's real.

Case in point: one of the few links that does work on that article you linked to goes to a study on religion and suicide, which has a conclusions section that, conveniently, conservapedia fails to quote, and there's a reason for that; the conclusions of the study run completely counter to the claim they want to make, that atheism inherently leads to suicide. Here it is: noting that atheists and christians have roughly equal incidences of depression, the study goes on to conclude that the reason atheism has a higher rate of suicide attempts as a result of that is that moral objections to suicide are so often religiously based, and therefore aren't present for atheists.

What the study actually says, GC, is that the difference between atheism and christianity, in this regard, is not a difference in overall mental health, since the two groups have the same level of depression. The difference is fear; the fear religion puts in you of going to hell, of disobeying what god wants. It's the moral objections to suicide, not a lessened desire to actually do it; it's not that christians just don't want to die at the same rate as atheists, it's that they don't want to piss off god. None of this, by the way, is mentioned in the conservapedia article, which is more than happy to tout the results, while ignoring what they mean when it gets in the way.

This is, of course, entirely expected, from anyone who actually takes the time to understand the history and makeup of conservapedia, and most likely unimportant, to those who don't care because what it's saying happens to agree with their agendas.