In fact, other studies have shown that people who regularly attend religious services:. Any of these factors could explain the difference in life expectancy observed in these studies. Another study suggested that religious involvement on its own should not be automatically assumed to improve health. Research also suggests that religion can sometimes become a barrier to mental health treatment. Some religious traditions instill the idea that problems are moral or spiritual failings rather than mental health issues.
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Your Privacy Rights. Sign in. Not registered? Sign up. Publications Pages Publications Pages. Recently viewed 0 Save Search. Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. Faith and Reason. Find in Worldcat. I think that religion was created by people and for people. When you look at the similarities between religions, they all have a core idea of something being there after death, and in Christianity especially, there is a punishment for doing the wrong thing and a reward for doing the right thing.
But I also believe that religion is for people who are unable to think for themselves. Religions tell you how to think, what to think, when to think, and what to think about. Nothing in this world was invented by man without a need.
Religion should have been invented to meet a need. To understand the need we need to port ourselves years hence leaving behind our prejudices and beliefs. Every king made his own laws. And it was not uncommon to find a new king ruling every now and then. Law kept changing with every king. Life should have been pretty difficult. For example, one king might say all food is common for the village. And you just can pick up anything you want and eat it. The next guy might say if you keep food in your house it is yours.
And if you pick food from others house, you will be beheaded. A kid moving from one king to the other might end up getting beheaded! So people thought of common rules and laws. How to live? What rules to follow? It also explains why most religions call themselves way of life. Jesus was called a traitor, obviously, he created a new law which was against Roman laws. And you used ways to tell others what religion you follow.
So that they know which law you follow. For instance, people wore cross. We are social creatures who interact and communicate with each other in a co-operative and supportive way.
In doing so we inevitably have stronger attachments to some individuals more than others. We continue to rely on these attachments in later life, when falling in love and making friends, and can even form strong attachments to non-human animals and inanimate objects.
It is easy to see that these strong attachments could transfer to religious deities and their messengers. Our relationships depend on being able to predict how others will behave across situations and time. We can imagine what they would do or say. This ability — known as cognitive decoupling — originates in childhood through pretend play.
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