Highly religious people say they’re happier, too, survey finds

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Cathy Lynn Grossman | April 12, 2016

(RNS) Look around. Three in 10 people you see claim they are pretty satisfied with life, happy, healthy and moral, too.

They’re the “highly religious,” 30 percent of U.S. adults who say they pray daily and attend church at least once a week.

“Religion in Everyday Life,” a new survey from Pew Research released Tuesday (April 12), teases out the particular ways they differ from the majority of U.S. Christians who are less observant and from non-Christians, including the “nones” who claim no religious identity.

The highly religious are overwhelmingly (95 percent) Protestant, Catholic or other Christians. Nearly half (49 percent) are white evangelicals. Most of the overall group (62 percent) are women.

http://www.religionnews.com/2016/04/12/happiness-christians-nones-pew-research/

http://www.pewforum.org/2016/04/12/religion-in-everyday-life

[Leontius]

1. This must be bullshit because

the religious are all terrified of being sent to hell by a vengeful and horrible God and feel worthless and despicable because of original sin. At least that's what we're told by the non-believers here and they must be right since they are expert on all things relating to religion and religious belief aren't they? How could anyone claim to be happy when they feel that way?

[Brettongarcia]

2. They are self-reporting bullshitters

I did an informal, preliminary investigation of the 30% who say they attend church regularly. In several small towns, among other things, I compared Sunday morning, going-to-church traffic, to rush hour. And using this and a few similar measurements, I calculated that less than 5% of the population actually attended church on Sunday.

[Brettongarcia]

3. PEW data stinks

: )

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4. Damn, they only surveyed 35,000 people.

[Brettongarcia]

6. And all were sinners;

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Liars, deceived persons.

(All the selfproclaimig Christians at least.)

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5. Not to mention how hate-fillled they all are.

Good they they're all too stupid to realize how unhappy they are. (TM)

[Brettongarcia]

7. Never realizing. ..

Their happiness was narcissistic self delusion; a lie.

Or perhaps they realized that they were happy because they were satisfying appearances. .. without having to actually do the dirty work.

Jesus himself said there was lots of hypocrisy in religion.