Religion and Mental Health

To listen to some atheists, you would think that religion was psychologically damaging and that it needs to be stopped for the sake of the human race.  But what does the evidence show?  A study by the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry did research on regular worship attendance and the rate of psychiatric disorders.  You can read the article here.  What they found was that people who regular attended worship services had lower rates of psychiatric disorders.  Does this prove that religion is true or that God exists?  No, but it does suggest that religion is not the dangerous thing that some atheists claim.  It looks rather beneficial.

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