It's very simple to our own profit: Numerous scientific studies have confirmed that people who are religious live longer, healthier, and happier lives. They are more successful financially; their marriages are better and more nurturing; they are more optimistic, less stressed out, and more satisfied with the direction of their lives. Moreover, religious people experience what they consider miracles.
"we can't cheat the god with our lying activities".
"we can cheat the poor&middle race people with our lying activities"
Please honest in god issue:
eremiah 29:13:"You will seek me and find me, when you seek me awith all your heart".
Update:Source
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Koenig, H. G., McCullough, M. E., & Larson, D. B. (2001). Handbook of religion and health. New York: Oxford.
Marks, L. (2005). Religion and bio-psycho-social health: A review of and conceptual model. Journal of Religion and Health, 44, 173-186.
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Update 3:Brain Study Shows That Thinking About God Reduces Distress -- But Only for Believers
ScienceDaily (Aug. 4, 2010) — Thinking about God may make you less upset about making errors, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The researchers measured brain waves for a particular kind of distress-response while participants made mistakes on a test. Those who had been prepared with religious thoughts had a less prominent response to mistakes than those who hadn't.
"Eighty-five percent of the world has some sort of religious beliefs," says Michael Inzlicht, who cowrote the study with Alexa Tullett, both at the University of Toronto Scarborough. "I think it behooves us as psychologists to study why people have these beliefs; exploring what functions, if any, they may serve."
With two experiments, the researchers showed that when people think about religion and God, their brains respond differently -- in a way that let
Update 5:With two experiments, the researchers showed that when people think about religion and God, their brains respond differently -- in a way that lets them take setbacks in stride and react with less distress to anxiety-provoking mistakes. Participants either wrote about religion or did a scrambled word task that included religion and God-related words. Then the researchers recorded their brain activity as they completed a computerized task -- one that was chosen because it has a high rate of errors. The results showed that when people were primed to think about religion and God, either consciously or unconsciously, brain activity decreases in areas consistent with the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), an area associated with a number of things, including regulating bodily states of arousal and serving an alerting function when things are going wrong, including when we make mistakes.
Interestingly, atheists reacted differently; when they were unconsciously primed with God-related ideas, th
Update 7:"Thinking about religion makes you calm under fire. It makes you less distressed when you've made an error," says Inzlicht. "We think this can help us understand some of the really interesting findings about people who are religious. Although not unequivocal, there is some evidence that religious people live longer and they tend to be happier and healthier." Atheists shouldn't despair, though. "We think this can occur with any meaning system that provides structure and helps people understand their world." Maybe atheists would do better if they were primed to think about their own beliefs, he says.
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Update 11:thanks for the all answers
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The burden of proof. lies squarely on those without faith They will never stop looking, and it is right in front of them, all around them, everywhere and in everything. :D
One can't cheat an honest man either. We can fool some people some of the time but God - Never!!! Besides He knows, sees, and hears everything in the universe(s)... And, what goes around comes around. So, when one is negative and projects this energy, it will revert back to them - tenfold! Don't worry, be happy! :D
Peace and Blessings.
The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. And even if all your lies were true, that wouldn't make your god real. That'd be an appeal to consequences, a logical fallacy. If someone believes gremlins will murder them in their sleep if they're overweight, they will live longer. But they'll be wrong. You can also achieve the same result (living longer) by being knowledgeable about health and making an informed decision about your diet.
ps: Christians have a higher divorce rate than atheists. Most of your other claims are based on self-reporting, which is not a valid measurement. Religious believers are under pressure to appear optimistic, unstressed, and satisfied.
If you have to have a cosmic bully peering over your shoulder in order to make you not cheat or lie, then you're not an honest person. And I don't even know what you're trying to say with "middle race people". I suspect that you have a bigoted world view.
If religious people live longer healthier lives why do the Scandinavian nations and Japan have on average the longest life spans and the greatest amount of Years spent in health, as these are predominantly atheist nations. Look it up youself on Nationmaster.
Divorce rate in U.S. for various groups:
Jewish 30%
Born again 27%
Other Christians 24%
Atheists 21%
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm
The happiest nation in the world is Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Iceland are also in the top 10. So your premise that atheists are less happy is false too.
http://www.financialjesus.com/how-to-get-rich/top-...
Well let's see the financial success claim, proportion earning above $100, 000 PA.
Atheists 28%
Jews 46%
Agnostics 21%
Evangelicals 13%
Mormons 16%
No, you failed there too.
http://www.atheistconnect.org/2011/07/15/scientifi...
See the difference. I provided links and references for my claims, you relied on unsupported anecdote
"Numerous scientific studies have confirmed that people who are religious live longer, healthier, and happier lives. They are more successful financially; their marriages are better and more nurturing; they are more optimistic, less stressed out, and more satisfied with the direction of their lives. Moreover, religious people experience what they consider miracles."
"we can't cheat the god with our lying activities".
"we can cheat the middle race people with our lying activities"
I am a Muslim and I agree what you have said. Thank you . and may Allah guide you.
Even if the results of these "numerous" studies (no links?) are as you say, that would not prove God exists (there are many religions after all)
How would you know that religion isn't just a massive placebo effect, for instance?
The research does not show that actually look more closely and without confirmation bias
“In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies.
“The United States is almost always the most dysfunctional of the developing democracies, sometimes spectacularly so.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article57...
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one."
- George Bernard Shaw
No one has a "burden of proof." It is both impossible to prove or disprove God. There is evidence pointing both to his existence, and his lack of existence. There is no way to know for sure, and that's what faith is all about.
Who bears the burden of proof ? The one who starts the debate ,for or against.
"God’s existence: Who bears the burden of proof"
People who claim X exists and who want to convince others.
"Numerous scientific studies have confirmed that people who are religious live longer, healthier, and happier lives. "
Please list sources, specifically published papers in scientific journals.
"religious people experience what they consider miracles."
Personal experience does not good evidence make.