Tore Lund wrote in message <3790491A.310E at online.no>...
>czar at ecn.ab.ca wrote:
>>>> Jeffrey P. Utz, M.D. (utzj at auhs.edu) wrote:
>>>> : Interestingly, people who live their lives based on their religious
>> : beliefs, whether western religion, eastern religion, native American
>> : religion, or atheism live longer and healthier than those who don't.
>>>> Atheism isn't a religion, idiot.
>>Agreed, but the more salient question is how this statistics was
>compiled. I mean, if atheists and believers live longer and healthier
>lives than other people, who is left to live shorter and sicker lives?
>Agnostics?
Doesn't matter. The important part is that people who live their lives
according to their beliefs live longer and healthier than those who don't.
So if you are (pick one: agnostic, atheist, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish,
Muslim) and live according to your beliefs (however that might be), then you
are more likely to live a longer, healthier life. If you do nto live
according to your beliefs, you are less likely to live a long, heatlhy life.
It is the living according to one's beliefs that seems to be important.
JEff Utz
