A spiritually inclined student is a happier student

[Riprorin]

College students who participate in religious activities are more likely to have better emotional and mental health than students with no religious involvement, according to a national study of students at 46 wide-ranging colleges and universities.

In addition, students who don't participate in religious activities are more than twice as likely to report poor mental health or depression than students who attend religious services frequently.

Link

 

[SynthDude2001]

k

 

[oogabooga]

interesting, is this new though?

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: Riprorin
College students who participate in religious activities are more likely to have better emotional and mental health than students with no religious involvement, according to a national study of students at 46 wide-ranging colleges and universities.

In addition, students who don't participate in religious activities are more than twice as likely to report poor mental health or depression than students who attend religious services frequently.

Link

Wow, no atheists have come in saying, "It's because religious people are more stupid and stupid people tend to be happier with life" ?!

 

[Riprorin]

Originally posted by: oogabooga
interesting, is this new though?

The article is from 10/26/04.

 

[screw3d]

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: Riprorin
College students who participate in religious activities are more likely to have better emotional and mental health than students with no religious involvement, according to a national study of students at 46 wide-ranging colleges and universities.

In addition, students who don't participate in religious activities are more than twice as likely to report poor mental health or depression than students who attend religious services frequently.

Link

Wow, no atheists have come in saying, "It's because religious people are more stupid and stupid people tend to be happier with life" ?!

winnar

 

[dighn]

I wouldn't be surprised. Religion does fill some psychological needs. But personally I wouldn't be able to suspend my belief long enough to really get into a religion.

 

[mobobuff]

Dostoyevsky's "Notes From The Underground" has a way of explaining this phenomenon quite well.

 

[minendo]

College students who participate in religious activities

Ain't that the truth. I slept with so many Catholic school girls in my college career that I wore off several layers of foreskin.

 

[yobarman]

Personally, I feel I would be a lot happier if I still practiced the relgion I was raised with. I guess it would give me something greater to believe in other than myself and my immediate surroundings.

I've become agnostic after the years of independence college life provides. (or just to lazy to go to church.)


Ugh...article makes me think.

 

[yllus]

Makes sense. Being an agnostic, it troubles my soul deeply when I ponder the greater mysteries of life. Who am I? Where am I going? Why are we here?

...

Screw that, I'll figure that crap out when I'm near death. I'm off to have some premarital sex.

 

[Yzzim]

Originally posted by: yllus
Makes sense. Being an agnostic, it troubles my soul deeply when I ponder the greater mysteries of life. Who am I? Where am I going? Why are we here?

...

Screw that, I'll figure that crap out when I'm near death. I'm off to have some premarital sex.

OMGBBQSINNER

😉

That's an interesting study, wish I could read more of it.

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: Riprorin
College students who participate in religious activities are more likely to have better emotional and mental health than students with no religious involvement, according to a national study of students at 46 wide-ranging colleges and universities.

In addition, students who don't participate in religious activities are more than twice as likely to report poor mental health or depression than students who attend religious services frequently.

Link

Wow, no atheists have come in saying, "It's because religious people are more stupid and stupid people tend to be happier with life" ?!

You said it, not me 😀

 

[DAGTA]

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: DAGTA

Originally posted by: Riprorin
College students who participate in religious activities are more likely to have better emotional and mental health than students with no religious involvement, according to a national study of students at 46 wide-ranging colleges and universities.

In addition, students who don't participate in religious activities are more than twice as likely to report poor mental health or depression than students who attend religious services frequently.

Link

Wow, no atheists have come in saying, "It's because religious people are more stupid and stupid people tend to be happier with life" ?!

You said it, not me 😀

Atheists are often just as predictable as religious people. 😉

 

[Apex]

But then you suck at the whole "teen angst" thing. 🙂

 

[Orsorum]

Go fvck yourself.

Now where's that prozac? 🙁

 

[Goosemaster]

Atheism seems to commence in the outright admonishment and ignorance towards anything religious. What many feel to realize is that the void left behind must be filled or problems will occur.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Atheism seems to commence in the outright admonishment and ignorance towards anything religious. What many feel to realize is that the void left behind must be filled or problems will occur.

So religion is a placebo taken to avoid emotional problems, got it.

I'd rather have a void than a hole crammed with horseshit.

 

[Orsorum]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Atheism seems to commence in the outright admonishment and ignorance towards anything religious. What many feel to realize is that the void left behind must be filled or problems will occur.

What if the void that was filled with religion was never a void in the first place?

 

[silverpig]

I wonder what the stats would be for someone who was high on pot 24/7? 🙂

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Atheism seems to commence in the outright admonishment and ignorance towards anything religious. What many feel to realize is that the void left behind must be filled or problems will occur.

*hastily grabs chair & popcorn*

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Atheism seems to commence in the outright admonishment and ignorance towards anything religious. What many feel to realize is that the void left behind must be filled or problems will occur.

So religion is a placebo taken to avoid emotional problems, got it.

I'd rather have a void than a hole crammed with horseshit.

heh...Perhaps it was foolish of me to make it a generalization. Specifically, I was explaining what happens to thos who chpoose atheism after religion. Many fail to realie the value of human interaction and companionship, and then are shocked as to why they feel so "sad and alone."

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Atheism seems to commence in the outright admonishment and ignorance towards anything religious. What many feel to realize is that the void left behind must be filled or problems will occur.

What if the void that was filled with religion was never a void in the first place?

Well, I am not regarding the religion as much as I am that which goes along with it.


Atheism is fine and all, but one must realize that man needs companionship and human interaction in a society such as ours.

Perhaps it is quite, but many people suffer from this.

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: mobobuff

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Atheism seems to commence in the outright admonishment and ignorance towards anything religious. What many feel to realize is that the void left behind must be filled or problems will occur.

So religion is a placebo taken to avoid emotional problems, got it.

I'd rather have a void than a hole crammed with horseshit.

heh...Perhaps it was foolish of me to make it a generalization. Specifically, I was explaining what happens to thos who chpoose atheism after religion. Many fail to realie the value of human interaction and companionship, and then are shocked as to why they feel so "sad and alone."

Originally posted by: Orsorum

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
Atheism seems to commence in the outright admonishment and ignorance towards anything religious. What many feel to realize is that the void left behind must be filled or problems will occur.

What if the void that was filled with religion was never a void in the first place?

Well, I am not regarding the religion as much as I am that which goes along with it.


Atheism is fine and all, but one must realize that man needs companionship and human interaction in a society such as ours.

Perhaps it is quite, but many people suffer from this.

I won't deny that, but who said I can't have human interaction and companionship without religion? The two aren't mutually exclusive.

 

[tweakmm]

Ignorance is bliss.

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: mobobuff
I won't deny that, but who said I can't have human interaction and companionship without religion? The two aren't mutually exclusive.

In many rural areas and areas of the south & midwest religion is the only way, or one of but a few ways, to go about it.