Religion.....and mental health...

..."scientists", studying this, say there's less depression among religious groups, than among the infidels. Of course, as with much in life, and follow the money, it may again simply be, follow the politics of the researchers. Unbiased findings of social science research...sure.
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At minimum the religious are more likely to sound optimistic at least in public. Atheists are less likely to do PR. Self-serving and self-promoting lies encounter greater feelings of skepticism and guilt in a depressed or atheist person. Why? Because you are not that important in the grand scheme of things. Religion is all about man being partial to himself, it is favouritism for you at the expense everything around you(including objective reality) .
Think of religion as a depressive reality-avoiding pedastel. It could be the case that it attracts not the flat rationalism of mild depression but the emotionally irrational. The religious character is that manic oscillation between joy and whipping yourself, a self-esteem all over the place that looks above to higher powers for a desperately needed sense of control.
Women being more religious inspires the thought that it is a pedastel to protect manic self-esteem from the truth. Religion provides drama, indifference to the truth and a special connection to the universe because without these things there would be despair.
"Unbiased findings of social science research...sure"

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