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terpfan1980

Join Date 08/2004

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To all the separation of Church and State types: short lives

Live long and prosper doesn't apply?

Link from The Washington Times (article originally from The London Sunday Telegraph) here: Church attendance linked to longer life

By Elizabeth Day
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

LONDON — Those who made their once-yearly trip to church on Christmas may want to think again. Research shows that regular churchgoers live longer.
    A 12-year study tracking mortality rates of more than 550 subjects older than 65 found that those who attended services at least once a week were 35 percent more likely to live longer than those who never attended church.
    The research also found that going to church boosted seniors' immune systems and made them less likely to suffer clogged arteries or high blood pressure.
    "There's something involved in the act of religious attendance, whether it's the group interaction, the worldview or just the exercise to get out of the house. There's something that seems to be beneficial," said University of Iowa psychology professor Susan Lutgendorf, who carried out the study.
    Robert Wallace, a co-author of the report, added that doctors could prescribe a course of church attendance to benefit patients.
    "It was an interesting and provocative find," he said. "I think that now we will be trying to aggregate the meaning and experience of going to church to the extent that one can produce medical intervention based on a better understanding of that."
    The researchers found that among persons who reported never attending religious services, the risk of death over the 12-year period was 52 percent.
    By contrast, the risk of death of those who attended church services more than once a week was 17 percent over the same period.
    Thirty-five percent of the 64 participants who never attended church died before the end of the study.
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... more at linked article

Ok, so maybe I am ready to accept Evolution as science now. Obviously natural selection has occured, and church-goers have evolved in some way so that they live longer while heathens, atheists and other non-church-goers are being removed from society at a faster rate.

So, if I'm thinking right here, those that have no problem with some co-mingling of Church and State can just outlive the evolutionists, the atheists, and others and in about 40 years (give or take), can use their AARP voting block power to make church-going mandatory for everyone, since it would be in the best interests of society for everyone to live longer, healther, happier lives.

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kingbee

Join Date 04/2004

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please try to explain how--in your own words and without some long quote from one of your 'unbiased' sources--religious-friendly government and/or government-friendly religion will not ultimately result in more government interference in our individual lives as it has done in every other country but ours (so far) going back to the the day people began forming governments.

drmiler? you dont want to respond to this?

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Reply #51 By: kingbee - 1/1/2005 9:42:07 PM
please try to explain how--in your own words and without some long quote from one of your 'unbiased' sources--religious-friendly government and/or government-friendly religion will not ultimately result in more government interference in our individual lives as it has done in every other country but ours (so far) going back to the the day people began forming governments.

drmiler? you dont want to respond to this?

Not really. I tried to explain to you before. You didn't like my explination then, what is there to make me think you'd like this one any better? Most especially after this remark.

without some long quote from one of your 'unbiased' sources

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