Religious People Live on Average Four Years Longer: Study

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Religious People 'Live Four Years Longer on Average'

Activities such as praying and volunteering could play a role in the boost in longevity, researchers believe.
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Religious people live longer, these researchers say, because of lifestyle guidelines, such as abstaining from drinking alcohol or taking drugs, as well as practices which ease stress, such as praying or meditating, and also activities which include volunteering and social activities.

“There’s still a lot of the benefit of religious affiliation that this can’t explain,” the lead researcher said.
 
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I’m always suspicious of these kinds of news stories. Because wasn’t there one about atheists living longer? Or Hindu’s living longer. Or Catholics living longer? Or scholars living longer?

What about people who post on CAF? There needs to be a study on that.
 
CAF is like a drug sometimes though. What will tell the scientists about our life-span? 😱
 
I would suspect that religious people, on average, are more fearful of death than are people who aren’t religious. Afterall, the religious people believe in some sort of hell, usually. Depending on what religion they belong to, they may spend their whole life feeling unworthy of anything but hell. Some people really are able to hold on to life longer because they are too afraid to go.

The agnostics and atheists I know (self included) are much more comfortable with the idea of death than most of the religious people I know.
 
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And not only that, weekly protestant church goers have lower suicide rates than non-church goers, and weekly Catholic church goers have even lower suicide rates than the protestant church goers. Catholics who attend daily mass have no suicides, in one study.
 
This is good news. I read a study once that said eating doughnuts every day can shorten your life by two years. Since I’m religious, I can enjoy my daily doughnuts and live two extra years!
 
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The agnostics and atheists I know (self included) are much more comfortable with the idea of death than most of the religious people I know.
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I think you either haven’t met enough religious people or haven’t met the right kind.
I’m certainly not driven by the fear of Hell. That’s baby stuff. Anyone who is coming at it from that perspective is either a newbie or doing it wrong.

Most of the religious people I know either feel confident that God in his mercy will keep them out of Hell or in some cases they don’t even believe Hell exists.
 
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Entwhistler said:
I’m always suspicious of these kinds of news stories. Because wasn’t there one about atheists living longer? Or Hindu’s living longer. Or Catholics living longer? Or scholars living longer?

What about people who post on CAF? There needs to be a study on that.
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CAF takes years off one’s life. There are evenings where I think I lost a year or three.
 
My observation has been the exact opposite, and I work in a nursing home.

The believers usually have an easier time of it at the end.
 
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What about people who post on CAF? There needs to be a study on that.
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I’ll outlive ALL OF YOU 😈 My Vampiric Debby Downer Nature shall sap your life force!

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Religious people live longer, these researchers say, because of lifestyle guidelines, such as abstaining from drinking alcohol or taking drugs, as well as practices which ease stress, such as praying or meditating, and also activities which include volunteering and social activities.
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Restraint and discipline is key. Athletes will tell us that. Paul writes this (a bit out of context but the underlying message is the same):
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. -Heb 12:11
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Despite what the studies cited near the end of the article suggest, just sitting in church isn’t going to do anything. Those studies show a correlation. The real cause, in my opinion, is how those who attend services live their lives. The same thing goes for studies that show practising religious people are substantially less likely to divorce, binge drink or have affairs and more likely to give to charity or volunteer. Though you could argue attendance is a cause if an individual absorbing the doctrinally sound sermons or homilies lives in a healthier way but this would be less direct.
The article also mentioned how non-religious people live as long as religious people in highly religious places so that’s indicative of mere pew-sitting won’t do much.
 
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There are APs to make that syrup. And since APs is simply sap right shifted with carry, it all works out.
 
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